State Big Academic Theatre (40 photos) Bashny.Net

October 28 after six years of restoration opens Bolshoi Theatre.
By modern standards the theater to 1 volume of the space for the viewer should fall 4 the amount of space for the company including barns, mechanics, storage and dressing room. Before closing the ratio was 1: 1. Now more fully meet these requirements.



main auditorium seats 1,768 people scene. Before restoration 2,100 people.

In the first years after the opening of the restored Albert Kavos Bolshoi Theater room lit by candles and oil lamps. In order to light oil lamps chandeliers auditorium, it rises to the top in a special room.
In 1863, this chandelier was replaced by a new one with 408 gas jets. According to eyewitnesses glass lamps lighting the gas is heated to such an extent that sometimes burst and the fragments fell on the heads of the audience.
After 30 years at the Bolshoi appears electricity. Interestingly, for electric lighting Big and Small theaters in the early 1890s was built separate power plant in one of the rooms of the building of the Maly Theater. In connection with this development the gas chandelier auditorium rework under electric lights. As such, it remains to this day.















































































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