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Often called the most influential theatre in Europe, this is where method acting was founded
over 100 years ago, by Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. Besides the theatre itself
and an acting studio-school, a small museum about the theatre's history is also on site.
OPERA
NOVAYA OPERA
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ;
495-694 0868; www.novayaopera.ru ; ul Karetny Ryad 3;
box office
noon-7.30pm; Tsvetnoy Bulvar)
This theatre company was founded in 1991 by then-mayor Luzhkov and artistic director Ev-
geny Kolobov. Maestro Kolobov stated, 'we do not pretend to be innovators in this beautiful
and complicated genre of opera'. As such, the 'New Opera' stages the old classics, and does
it well. The gorgeous, modern opera house is set amid the Hermitage Gardens.
OPERA, BALLET
STANISLAVSKY & NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO MUSICAL THEATRE
(- MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 495-629 2835; www.stanislavskymusic.ru ; ul Bolshaya Dmitrovka 17;
box office 11.30am-7pm; Chekhovskaya)
This historic company was founded when two legends of the Moscow theatre scene - Kon-
stantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko - joined forces in 1941. Their
newly created theatre became a workshop for applying the innovative dramatic methods of
the Moscow Art Theatre to opera and ballet.
CINEMA
DOME CINEMA
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 495-931 9873; www.domecinema.ru ; Renaissance Moscow Hotel,
Olympiysky pr 18/1; Prospekt Mira)
This is one of Moscow's first deluxe American-style theatres. These days films are shown in
the original language - usually English - with dubs in Russian on the headphones.
FOLK SHOW
RUSSIAN BALL AT YAR
( GOOGLE MAP ; 495-960 2004; www.sovietsky.ru ; Leningradsky pr 32/2, Sovietsky Hotel; tickets
R1000, dinner R800-1200; Dinamo)
Everything about Yar is over the top, from the vast, gilded interior to the traditional Russian
menu to the Moulin Rouge-style dancing girls. The thematic show is infamous for its elab-
orate costumes. The old-fashioned Russian food is pretty elaborate, too. Buy tickets in ad-
vance. Walk 1km southeast from Dinamo metro station.
CIRCUS
NIKULIN CIRCUS ON TSVETNOY BULVAR
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