Kaluga Regional Drama Theatre

Coordinates: 54°30′56″N 36°15′31″E / 54.51556°N 36.25861°E / 54.51556; 36.25861
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Kaluga Regional Drama Theatre
Kaluga Drama
Theatre building. 2003
Map
Address248001, Theatrical square, 1
Kaluga
Russia
Coordinates54°30′56″N 36°15′31″E / 54.51556°N 36.25861°E / 54.51556; 36.25861
Public transitbus: 3, 4, 42, 77, 98
trolley: 3, 18
OwnerState theatre
TypeDrama
Seating typesoft seat
Capacity697 (main stage)
60 (small stage)
45 (stage under the roof) [1]
Current use₽ – (rub)
Construction
OpenedJanuary 19, 1777 (1777-01-19)
Reopened1842, 1875, 1958
Rebuilt1958 [2]
Years active1777–present
ArchitectIvan Zholtovsky
Website
Official webcite

Kaluga Regional Drama Theatre (Russian: Калужский областной драматический театр) is a Russian theatre in Kaluga. One of the oldest operating drama theaters of Russia (since 1777).

History

The first Governor-general of Kaluga region Mikhail Krechetnikov was a great admirer of arts. By his decision drama theatre was established in Kaluga on 30 January [O.S. 19 January] 1777.[3]

Four actors and an actress from

St. Petersburg
were invited to the new theatre. Other actors were recruited from residents of Kaluga. Thus, the first theatrical company in Kaluga has been created.

Writing of the play for the first night has been ordered to the famous Russian playwright and poet Vasily Maykov which came out under the name of Prologue on opening of the Kaluga Region.[4][5]

Opening of the theatre and its first season has taken place at a big congestion of the people. Many prominent guests were invited and the high-ranking persons from the whole country of Russia. The famous playwright and the composer of that time N. S. Titov who at a personal request of Mikhail Krechetnikov directed reorganization of the building and a set of actors becomes the art director.

Maria Savina, the famous Russian actress and later the chairman of the Russian theatrical society, as well as the singer Vera Zorina performed there, in 1871 and 1872, respectively.

In 1879-1880 year the drama actor and the impresario, one of the leading figures of Maly Theatre Alexander Rasskazov worked with the theatre.[5]

In 1888 the playwright Nikolay Solovyov, some of his works were either banned censorship or rejected by the Theatrical and Literary Committee, produced here Light Without Heat he co-authored with Alexander Ostrovsky, as well as the melodrama Honeymoon ("Медовый месяц").[6]

On donations of residents of Kaluga and the province, in 1875 the theatre building is erected on Sennaya Square which existed up to the end of 1941.

"With direct participation and efforts" of N. D. Tilling-Kruchinin, in 1897, for the first time in Kaluga, in theatre the "Cinematograph Lumiere" has been shown "that has caused a great delight of the audience and local press". [7]

During World War I the theatre endures crisis, the constant troupe was absent, on a scene various enterprises went on tour.

Council of People's Commissars
establishes the decree "About association of theatrical business". By this decree "the young proletarian state" has nationalized theatres and all theatrical property.

The Kaluga theatre turns into "Narkompros" (national education) maintaining.

In the country there was a Civil war, hunger and ruin reigned, and interest of the Kaluga viewer in theatre was so big that tickets were bought up right after opening of cash desks – all places, including also "gallery". Before a premiere near the theatre building quite often it was possible to meet people who exchanged tickets for things, products, or sold them for two-three prices from normal.

From the beginning of the

USSR
.

In post-war years wide recognition of the audience was gained by a number of great masters of a scene: Valentina Nikitina, Polina Vaneeva, Sergey Sladky, Feofan Maysky, Lidiya Volskaya, Tamara Valasiadi, Alexander Dodonkin, Alexey Tyurin, Irina Blazhnova, Vladimir Romanovsky, Tamara Antonova.

In 1950 the theatre is headed by the young director Zinovy Korogodsky, subsequently the chief director of the Leningrad Theatre for young spectators.

In Kaluga he puts the first independent performances: "Comrades Moscovites" ("Товарищи москвичи"), "The truth is good, but happiness is better" ("Правда хорошо, а счастье лучше"), "Dance teacher" ("Учитель танцев"), "Traktirshchitsa" ("Трактирщица").[2]

The building of theatre takes a modern form only in 1958, built up anew after numerous destructions, the fires and reorganizations. The chief directors of theatre in different years: David Lyubarsky, Roman Sokolov, Alexander Pletnyov.[2]

In the fall of 2016, Kaluga regional drama theatre has opened the 240th theatrical season.

Notes

  1. ^ Kaluga regional drama theatre. Review.
  2. ^ a b c Kaluga regional drama theatre. Official webcite.
  3. ^ Malinin 1992, p. 28.
  4. ^ Andreev 2001, p. 176.
  5. ^ a b Malinin 1912.
  6. ^ Malinin 1992, p. 37.
  7. ^ Калужский областной драматический театр. eTVnet.com.

References

  • Malinin, D. I. (1992). Kaluga. Experience of the historical guide to Kaluga and the main centers of the province (in Russian) (2st ed.). Kaluga: Golden Alley. p. 273.
    OCLC 28487297
    .
  • Malinin, D. I. (1912). Начало Театра въ КалугҌ (къ исторіи калужскаго театра въ XVIII вѣкѣ) (in Russian). Kaluga: Губернская Типо-Литография. p. 42.
    OCLC 39991814
    .
  • Andreev, M. I. (2001). Russian drama theatre: encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Great Russian Encyclopedia. p. 565.
    OCLC 646278154
    .
  • Тархов, С. А. (2001). "Изменение административно-территориального деления России за последние 300 лет". География (№ 15) (in Russian). Moscow: «Первое сентября». Retrieved 2016-03-30.

External links

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