Theaters in Moscow are as colorful and diverse as Moscow residents. Some delight the hearing with the roulades of opera divas, and the eyesight of ballet dancers, others invite to get wet tears of catharsis on the Seagull and the Young Guard. It all depends on the public, so different, so strict and at the same time so grateful: there are those who have been going to the Small for more than one decade, and those who say that there is nothing better than "Taganka", someone is crazy from Zeldin in the "Teacher of Dance", and someone only give Gosha Kutsenko in Ladies' Night.

All undeniably agree on one thing: going to a good performance is the most pleasant, cozy and interesting way to spend an evening after a hard day, even if tomorrow is Saturday, and even if after the theater you go to a nice restaurant nearby and exchange impressions from what you saw with a pleasant interlocutor ... Complexity only one - choose which of the Moscow theaters will raise their curtain before you today: there are about two hundred of them in the city.

The largest, most famous and ancient theaters of Moscow

Undoubtedly, the most famous theater in Moscow and throughout Russia is Bolshoi .Do not list all the stars who performed on his stage for centuries, the best Russian and world opera singers and ballet dancers .Everything here is saturated with their stories, they breathe walls and a scene, they sparkle in every fragment of a huge crystal chandelier - all these stories live without exception on the stage and will always live .Today Bolshoi is the standard of quality of ballet and opera performances, imperial pride, if you like, is shown on a mandatory basis to foreign guests .In total, after reconstruction, Bolshoi has three venues for performances - the troupe, as well as the audience, has a place to turn around .

The Small Theater, originally just inferior in size to the Bolshoi, is famous for no less than .Especially for productions on his stage, many authors wrote, but Ostrovsky left a special trace in the repertoire of the theater: once the theater was unofficially called "Ostrovsky's House" .However, the variety of the repertoire of the Maly Theater can only be envied: classical dramas, light comedies, and even sparkling vaudevilles are put on its stage, although the preference has long been given to performances not contemporary in time but in terms of the severity of the topics touched .Once here for the first time completely put "Woe from Wit", and since then the theater is not tired of not only entertaining, but also educating the viewer .

Once a branch of the Bolshoi Theater, the Moscow Operetta has adequately declared itself, not one decade has been considered the leading one in its genre, not only in Russia, but also in Europe. Modern lighting and sound equipment, classical interiors, as well as bold experiments in uniting on one stage the traditions of the Russian repertoire theater and music hall.

The most celebrated theater in Moscow is Lenk - the most famous Russian actors regularly appear on its stage. A small Lenkom hall is never empty, Muscovites and guests of the capital come to see the classic performances reviving on the stage, to enjoy the play of your favorite actors. For many years in the repertoire there has been the famous performance "Juno and Avos" staged by Mark Zakharov and a number of other performances, whose story sometimes "drags on" from the 80s of the last century, invariably collecting the sold out.

МХАТ им .Gorky, founded by Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, from the first days was conceived as one of the most democratic theaters in Moscow .Moreover, in the first years of existence in the name of the theater was the word "public", emphasizing its main principle .However, this did not prevent the legendary Moscow Art Theater from surviving the split - almost a hundred years later, he split into the Moscow Art Academic Theater .Gorky and the new Moscow Art Theater him .Chekhov .МХАТ им .Gorky is considered the direct successor of the Moscow Art Theater and is located in his historic building .His repertoire includes performances of the best works of Russian and foreign classical literature, the roles of which are performed by well-deserved and popular Russian artists .

The Moscow Art Theater named him .A.P.Chekhov - drama theater, in contrast to the Moscow Art Theater, he .Gorky turned first of all to modern dramaturgy .The main principle of the Moscow Art Theater is the search for a scenic embodiment of the new drama in the best traditions of Chekhov's drama .For the first time in the history of the world theater, the Moscow Art Theater approves the significance of the director as the author of the play interpreting the play in accordance with his own creative vision .Today, under his shadow, the most talented actors of the Russian and Soviet theater and cinema @ @.

Another legendary theater is the Taganka Theater, the uneasy fate of which led to the fact that within its walls the spirit of free-thinking and avant-garde was strengthened .Traditions are revived here E .Vakhtangova, To .Meyerhold and B .Brecht (whose portraits immediately found their places in the foyer), the courage and liberty of the performances gave the viewer a breath of vitality, and his eyes and hearing were delighted by such stars as Valery Zolotukhin, Vladimir Vysotsky, Leonid Filatov .We love the Taganka Theater for spectators for the light, witty and charming play of the actors, active contact and unity with the audience, which, perhaps, so sometimes does not suffice other Moscow theaters .

The Sovremennik Theater, which began with just one performance, shown by the graduates of the Moscow Art Theater School at midnight, April 15, 1956 ., and then more than once was almost on the verge of closing, because of censorship, because of the departure of Khudruk ... Under the leadership of Galina Volchek, Sovremennik became the only foreign theater that received the Drama Desk Award in the United States and gathered in his troupe such beloved actors as Marina Neyolova, Chulpan Khamatova, Alyona Babenko, Sergei Makovetsky, Nikita Efremov, Arthur Smolyaninov and others .

Children's and youth theaters in Moscow

Go to the theater with a child - it means to please not only your child, but also that baby that lives in you - the more so that in the Russian capital for a wonderful return to childhood a lot of places. Fine dramatic and puppet children's theaters of Moscow are waiting for young guests. Among the most famous children's theaters in the capital are the Obraztsov Puppet Theater, Moscow's Buff Theater, the Children's Book Theater "Magic Lamp" and others.

The Obraztsov Puppet Theater is not only the famous clock on the facade and the place where one of the world's best collections of theater dolls is assembled. Puppets here first come to life, the viewer feels and sympathizes with each performance. This is facilitated by the amazing equipment of the theater: the complex sliding curtain, the transforming walls of the hall, where you find yourself "surrounded" by dolls, "running" from side to side sound ... The repertoire of the theater is familiar from childhood, but also favorite fairy tales.

RAMT - Russian Academic Youth Theater - was conceived in 1921 as the country's first theater for children .His repertoire is not only well-known from childhood literary tales, but also folkloric works, classical and contemporary works of Russian and foreign authors, among which one likes to see plays and small children, and schoolchildren, teenagers, and very grown-up people .In the RAMT you can find a statement for every taste: detectives, tragedies, comedies, fairy tales, other genres .Many performances of the Academic Youth Theater have been awarded prestigious theatrical awards .

And the Sats musical theater is unique in that it is the first professional theater of opera, ballet and symphonic music for children in the world.

The theater of the children's book "Magic lamp" can be called a family theater, bringing interest and love to the book from the smallest to the most adult people, for some reason postponed reading. The basis of the repertoire is the best works for children, as well as meetings with writers, presentations of new children's books, exhibitions of the best illustrators.

Young theaters of Moscow

In addition to the theaters with a deep history, there are new Melpomene palaces in Moscow, which won the audience's fervent love.

In 1990, a new star appeared on the theater sky of the capital - "Helikon-Opera", which in just a few years became one of the most visited theaters in Moscow. His repertoire is musical performances, where drama and opera are intertwined, bringing the site numerous awards of the "Golden Mask" and even a victory at the Moscow Opera Festival.

Pyotr Fomenko's studio is a special theater, modern in its essence, like no one in the spirit of the times .His troupe - several generations of graduates of the workshop of Peter Fomenko in GITIS, never dared to leave .Here everything (including interiors) is made under the strict guidance of the master, and the repertoire since 1993 reads about four dozen performances, mainly in the setting of the maestro himself .His performances were repeatedly nominated for Russian and international prizes, became participants of theater festivals .

No less famous, popular, loved by the audience are the theater .Ermolova, directed by Oleg Menshikov, Oleg Tabakov Theater, affectionately called "Tabakerka" for his always youthful and fervent character of the productions, "Satyricon", founded by Arkady Raikin, Satire Theater, always "thundering" with the surnames of the actors of his troupe (Shirvindt, Derzhavin, Aroseva , Vasilyeva et al .), Vakhtangov Theater, where even the performances and productions are familiar for a long time always look sharply and in a new way, like the most "fresh" premiere, the Moscow Academic Theater .AT.Mayakovsky, once built for the reception of eminent guest performers from abroad, and now glorious one of the oldest and glorified theater groups in Moscow, the State Academic Theater named him .The Moscow Soviet, the Moscow Drama Theater .Pushkin, on the stage of which often appear invited stars such as Ivan Urgant or Vladimir Men'shov, Moscow Academic Music Theater named K .FROM.Stanislavsky and B .AND.Nemirovich-Danchenko, Theater of Classical Ballet with the motto "All genres, except dull! "And many other wonderful theaters .