Search Results: The Bolshoi Theatre from Biblionne

One of 700 to 800 copies printed. Extremely rare. The collection includes playbills for operas (Eugene Onegin – 27 December 1941; Aida – 21 April 1942; La Traviata – 8 October 1942, 25 June 1943) and Swan Lake ballet (12 April 1942, 31 July 1942, 26 February 1943). They were performed by the Bolshoi Theatre during the evacuation in Kuybyshev (now Samara). On 22 October 1941 a bomb fell on the Bolshoi Theatre building. The reconstruction took two years and the theatre had again opened its doors to the public only in September 1943.One of the most well-known stars of Russian opera Ivan Kozlovsky wrote that La Traviata and Eugene Onegin became the first performances of the Bolshoi Theatre in Kuybyshev (December 1941; previously only extracts). Swan Lake was the first ballet performed at the evacuation (December 14, 1941).