Mariinsky Theatre

The Mariinsky Theatre (Russian Мариинский театр ) is one of the most famous opera and ballet houses in the world. The building is located at the St. Petersburg Theater Square; many important Russian operas and ballets were performed here. It is the home of still like the so-called international appearances at the Kirov Ballet. The ballet now bears also the official name Ballet Company of the Mariinsky Theatre.

The 1860 built by Alberto Cavos building was originally by Maria Alexandrovna of Hesse- Darmstadt, the wife of Tsar Alexander II, named. When the building of the Bolshoi Theatre Kamenny proved in 1886 to be dilapidated, subjected to the director Ivan Vsevolozhsky the Imperial opera and ballet to the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre. 1919 was initially the name GATOB ( Gosudarstwennyj akademitscheski teatr opery i Baleta, German " State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater" ) and in 1935, renamed in 1934 after the murdered chairman of the Leningrad Soviet, Sergei Kirov Kirov Theatre. Since 1992, it bears its original name.

The building holds 2,000 spectators. The auditorium is richly decorated in blue, white and gold. Very extensive restoration and renovation work by the architect Dominique Perrault were completed in 2009. On 2 May 2013, the new building of the theater was in the presence of Russian leaders Vladimir Putin inaugurated (cost 550 million euros ).

The chief conductor, artistic director and director of theater Valery Gergiev Abissalowitsch.

Premieres

Organ

The organ was built in 2009 by the organ-building factory core ( Strasbourg).

• Pairing: Normal Couplers: II / I, III / I, III / II,
• Suboktavkoppeln: II / I, III / I, III / II, III / III
• Chamades of I, II, III, P.