Artistic director of the N.I. Sats Theater spoke about the reconstruction of the Big Stage

The N.I. Sats Children's Musical Theater presented the reconstructed Big Stage and announced the first premiere on it.: It will be Mikhail Glinka's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila. This was told to Izvestia by the artistic director of the theater, director, head of the Association of Musical Theaters of Russia and People's Artist of the Russian Federation Georgy Isaakyan.

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At the time of its creation, the theater was one of the most technologically equipped in Europe, according to Isaakyan. However, more than 40 years have passed since then. The equipment started to fail. The reconstruction of the theater took four years.

"This means a new quality of light, sound, and stage technique. Now all machinery is controlled by computers. I came to the theater in those years when almost everything was done the old—fashioned way: the scenery was changed manually, the lights, the sound - everything was analog. And although I like that old warm lamp theater, it's clear that time is running ahead anyway," he said.

The interlocutor of Izvestia noted that the orchestra pit had changed a lot during the reconstruction process. It has doubled in size, and there are three different venues with multiple barriers, with additional reclining spectator rows.

"That is, if we have a chamber orchestra, it fits in a small pit, and the rest of the space is occupied by additional audience rows, and our number of thousands is still increasing. If it's a score by Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, which requires the power of an orchestra, then this whole new big pit is occupied by musicians and, accordingly, gives our audience the right idea of how music should sound. Without compromise," Isaakyan said.

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