Mariinsky Theatre, Theatre Square, St. Peterburg, Russia
The home of St. Petersburg’s – and arguably Russia’s – finest opera and ballet companies, the Mariinsky Theatre is a monumental neoclassical building most impressive for its sheer bulk and the beautiful decoration of its auditorium.
The Imperial Ballet and Opera Theatre had existed since 1783, performing on a variety of stages including the Maly (“Small”) Theatre, a wooden building that used to stand near the Church of Our Saviour on the Spilled Blood, the private Hermitage Theatre, and from 1783 Antonio Rinaldi’s Bolshoy Kamenniy (“Big Stone”) Theatre on the site now occupied by the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, opposite the modern Mariinsky Theatre on Teatralnaya Ploshchad (“Theatre Square”).
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