Navoi Opera & Ballet Theatre
Alisher Navoi Opera and Ballet Theatre is the only theater of such a high level all over Central and South-East Asia. The building was constructed in 1947. It is unique, because it was the first building planned on the territory of Tashkent. The contest for project of the building’s construction was announced in the 30-ies. Architects from almost all the republics of the Soviet Union took part in this contest. Forty seven best projects were submitted to the Government and selection lasted the whole month. As a result, there was selected the project of academic Schusev. This well-known Soviet architect designed Lenin Mausoleum, Kazan railway station, many stations of the Moscow underground.
According to his project the appearance of the building should be national, but in compliance with the European standard of quality. Schusev turned to the folk artists, and it was agreed that in the design of the building should be a lot of wall paintings, carvings, ganch. Later the inner space of the theater was divided into 6 lobbies and was decorated in the traditional style of the different areas - Bukhara, Samarkand, Khorezm, Termez.
Large hall with 1400 seats represents semi-oval rows with purple velvet seats and with heavy mounted balconies. In the hall was used non-traditional for Central Asia Russian stucco, and also in design of the hall was used a lot of gilding. Chandelier of the hall is made in the form of grapes.
There is a large marble fountain or a house at Theater Square, its center is decorated with a half-open cotton, which is a symbol of Uzbekistan as one of the world`s cotton exporters. When the fountain is turned on, jets of water has a whitish color and symbolize the flow of cotton. Fountain has a backlighting along the perimeter and in the center, thanks to which in the evening, it looks magnificient.
In the following season Navoi Theater celebrates 75 - unniversary. Theater successfully tours abroad, his soloists are winning in international festivals and competitions, performing a number of interesting international projects. Over the past three years, the theater took on its stage world-class conductors: Saim Akchilya, Istanbul University professor of music, Pierre Dominic Panella from Germany, Lawrence Golan of the United States, Paolo Longo of France, Giovanni Gverreri from Italy. Famous opera singers from Korea and Japan, ballet dancers from Russia, Ukraine, France and Britain had perfomances here.
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