Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theatre

The Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theatre is a theater created on the basis of the Chuvash State Musical Theatre.

History[edit | edit source]

The theater opened in 1960 with the first Chuvash opera "Shyvarman" ("Water Mill") F. Vasilyev. The team was headed by Boris Semenovich Markov. Initially, the performances were played on the stage of the Chuvash musical and dramatic theater.

In 1967, a stage production of the opera "Narspy" by G. Hirbu was carried out, marked by the State Prize of the CASSR named after K. Ivanov, the first ballet performance - "Giselle" by A. Adana was shown.

In 1969, the musical troupe was separated into an independent Chuvash musical theater, transformed in 1993 into the Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater. Throughout its history, the theater troupe mastered works of domestic and foreign classics. Following Eugene Onegin, the operas “Aleko” by S. Rachmaninov and “Payatsy” by R. Leonkavallo, “The Barber of Seville” by J. Rossini and “Madame Butterfly” by J. Puccini, “Rigoletto” and “La Traviata”, “Trubadour”, “Bal-Masquerade” by J. Verdi, “The Queen of Spades”, “Iolanta” by P. Tchaikovsky, “Boris Godorz” by Mrogonovsky and others.

On June 28, 1970, the first national Chuvash ballet was born – the premiere of the ballet “Sarpige” by F. Vasilyev took place. Five years later, another ballet by F. Vasilyev, Arzuri, was left on the stage of the theater. In the future, the national choreographic repertoire was replenished with ballets "Wonderful embroidery" by V. Khodyashchev in the production of A. Andreev, "Ugaslu" by A. Lotseva in the production of V. Budarin, the ballet for children "Purneske" by A. Galkin in the production of V. Budarin.

In 2007, at the grant of the President of the Chuvash Republic, the national ballet “Light of the Evening Dawn” by A. Lotseva was staged.