Samara State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre

Samara Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre is one of the largest Russian musical theaters. The theater opened on June 1, 1931 with Mussorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov. Its origins were distinguished Russian musicians - a student of Taneyev and Rimsky-Korsakov, conductor and composer Anton Eichenwald, conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre Ari Pazovsky, famous Russian conductor Isidor Zak, director of the Bolshoi Theatre Joseph Lapitsky.