Drama theatre of Nizhny Novgorod, M. Gorky is one of the oldest theaters in the country. It exists for over 200 years.
Drama theatre in Nizhny Novgorod began its existence in 1798. Its founder was Prince N. G. Shakhovskiy. It was a serf theatre and all the actors came from families of serfs. The performances were shown in one of the houses of the Prince, which was located well corner of the streets of the Big caves and Small caves. The house was reconstructed into the theatre, it was the parterre, designed for a hundred spectators, a gallery for two hundred spectators, and boxes for 27 and 50 seats. The building was dark and old. The Lodge was more like a stall. On the curtain there was a huge hole which periodically protrude someone's nose peeking someone's eyes, protruded the head. Since the Foundation and until 1824, the theater was called Nizhny Novgorod City and Fairground theatre of Prince Shakhovsky. The repertoire included tragedies, comedies, ballets and operas. Since 1824, the name was changed, now it was the Nizhny Novgorod theater, and from 1896 – Nikolaev drama theatre (Nizhny Novgorod). History Of its existence in different periods were different.
The Years from 1824 to 1896 was for theater heavy. After the death of Prince Shakhovsky, his heirs sold the theater along with all the actors of the two rich theater-goers, but after 10 years, the owners had again been replaced. This could not affect the quality of the productions. Frequent changes entrepreneurs led to the fact that the performances have become less interesting, the actors play worse, revenues have declined, the building and the troupe needed to contain, which led to losses. In 1853 the building was destroyed by fire. The year of rebirth can be considered as 1855. Then, at the request of the Governor, the theatre was re-opened, but in a house owned by P. E. Bugrov. During the period from 1863 to 1894, the building has survived several fires. The city Duma was seeking funds for its restoration, but N. Mounds - the owner was not willing that the house of his grandfather again was the theatre. He has allocated 200 thousand rubles for the construction of a new building. The city added to this sum of 50 thousand, the government granted a subsidy, and after 2 years was built a new theater building on Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, where it resides to this day. The opening took place in 1896, and the premiere performance was Glinka's Opera "a life for the Tsar”, in which singing a young and still unknown F. Chaliapin. In different years on the stage of the theatre of Nizhny Novgorod began his career with such great actors and Actresses like K. S. Stanislavsky, V. F. Komissarzhevskaya, M. N. Yermolov, M. S. Shchepkin and others.
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In 20th century Drama theatre (Nizhny Novgorod) changed many names. In 1918 he was called Soviet, 1923 – First national, 1932 - the First left (after the renaming of the city in the Bitter), he was and State, territorial, and regional. The name which it bears now was given to him in 1990 – Nizhny Novgorod State red banner of Labor drama theater named after M. Gorky. For the period from 1928 to 1945, the repertoire of new productions in the amount of 191. Among them were performances of classical works, plays by foreign authors of that time, but the vast majority belonged to all Soviet authors. Drama theatre (Nizhny Novgorod) has received for their performances awards and top prizes at festivals.
Now the Director is B. Kainov (honored worker of culture of Russia), artistic Director – the City of Demura (people's artist of Russia). Since 2006, drama theatre (Nizhny Novgorod) resumed its tour in Russia. In addition, he actively participates in theatre festivals (Russian and international), as well as forums. The leadership of faithful productions on the works of the classics, but work is underway to update the repertoire.
Drama theatre (Nizhny Novgorod) gathered in its troupe of 40 wonderful actors, 11 of which carry the title of Honored artist of Russia and three – the people. Already 217 season continues to delight audiences drama theatre in Nizhny Novgorod.
The Repertoire mostly consists of classical pieces, although there are works by contemporary authors, as well as tales for children: “twelfth night" by W. Shakespeare, “Marriage” N.In. Gogol, "the Imaginary invalid" Zh-B. Moliere, “the beggars Opera” John. Gay, "Classmates" Yuri Polyakov, “Too married taxi driver” R. Cooney, ‘puss in boots” sh .Perrault and others.
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