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In 1987, the Chamber Musical Theater was founded in the city of Leningrad by Yuri Alexandrov, People's Artist of Russia, Honored Artist of Russia, Honored Art Worker, Music Director, laureate of numerous theater awards. Initially, the Alexandrov Theater was conceived as a creative laboratory, which bore the name "St. Petersburg Opera". Subsequently, the creative laboratory grew into the State Theater, deservedly known not only in Russia, but also abroad.

The relatively young theater already boasts a rich creative biography. During its twenty-three seasons, the Chamber Theater has rallied into an integral organism with its own unique, original program. The theater employs great musicians, soloists, honored artists, diploma winners and laureates of all-Russian and international competitions. On the stage of the theater, diverse opera works are staged - these are musical dramas, opera-buffs, comic operas, operas by classics and contemporary authors: The Game of Robin and Marion; (Adam de la Hal), Falcon (Bortnyansky), " White Rose " (Zimmerman), `` I Believe '' (Piguzov), `` The Fifth Voyage of Christopher Columbus '', `` Piebald Dog Running at the Edge of the Sea '', (Smelkov), `` Bell '', `` Rita '' (Donizetti), " Eugene Onegin " (Tchaikovsky), " Boris Godunov " (Mussorgsky), " Players - 1942 " (Shostakovich), " Rigoletto " (Verdi), 'The Song of Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke' (Mattus) " The Queen of Spades " (Tchaikovsky), " Beautiful Elena " (Offenbach) and many others.

The theater troupe tours a lot in the cities of Russia, USA, Finland, Germany, Switzerland.

Until 2003, the theater did not have its own premises, and, finally, on May 27 (on the anniversary of the city ), "St. Petersburg Opera" received its own house - a mansion that belonged to Baron von Derviz, in the center of St. Petersburg on st. Galley in the house number 33.

The first premiere on the new stage was a musical sensation on a European scale - a melodrama created in a playful manner by the Italian author Gaetano Donizetti "Peter the Great - Tsar of All Russia, or a Livonian Carpenter".

The mansion on Galernaya is known for its history of musical and theatrical traditions. Here, at the end of the 19th century, Vsevolod Meyerhold (who at that time presented himself under the pseudonym "Doctor Dapertutto") staged performances. Artists Sergei Sudeikin, Nikolai Sapunov, actors B. Kazarova-Volkova, N. Petrov, musician and poet M. Kuzmin were involved in Meyerhold's productions. Vakhtangov, Chekhov, Nemirovich-Danchenko, Stanislavsky, and many other famous people of art came to the performances.

At the beginning of the last century (since 1915), the mansion was named "Concert and Theater Hall", it hosted concerts in which Sobinov, Isadora Duncan, Fyodor Chaliapin performed. Performances and concerts were staged in the large White Hall, which had an equipped stage. In this hall, by some miracle after the club meetings of the Soviet period, the rich interior with stucco molding in the form of sculptures remained untouched, personifying the arts. Other interiors of the mansion have also been preserved. This is the Maple living room with a picturesque panel, and the magnificent Moorish drawing room covered with gilded ornaments, and the Winter Garden, made in the form of a grotto.

The owner of the mansion was originally the famous statesman of the eighteenth century A.P. Volynsky, cabinet minister under Empress Anna Ioannovna. After the execution of Volynsky (he was accused of involvement in a conspiracy against Biron), his daughter became the mistress of the house, who married Count Vorontsov. Later, the merchants Balabin, Schneider, and Prince Repin owned the mansion. Finally, in 1883, Baron von Dervies acquired the mansion, which was redesigned by the architect F.L. Miller in 1870 (Miller added another building and changed the facade).
In the 11-13 years of the last century, the house was the "House of Interludes" under the leadership of Vsevolod Meyerhold. It was a bohemian restaurant and theater with an innovative and innovative repertoire. After this period, the Shebeko theater hall was located here.

In the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years, the mansion hosted numerous organizations. The district committee of the RKPb, the Estonian House of Education, the Metalworkers' Union were located there. After the Great Patriotic War, the building housed the Mayak club (until 1991).

And, finally, on the 300th anniversary of the city on the Neva, the restored mansion again became the home of a theater where symphonic and opera music is performed and there is a stage of the theater, founded and headed by Yuri Alexandrov.

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