History
The first permanent theatre was founded in Belarus in 1933 on the basis of the Belarusian opera and ballet school. Bizet's Carmen opended the theatre. Several professional soloists and dancers were added to the troupe in the first few years at this location. Swan Lake, performed by K. Muller, was the first show on the stage of the new theatre. The performances by the theatre company during the "Decade of Belarusian Art" in Moscow was a great success, and performances continued during the war in Nizhny Novgorod until the liberation of Minsk in 1944; after that performances took place in Kovrov).
During this time the repertoire was greatly enriched. The most famous operas staged in this theatre include Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky, Otello and Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi, Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, Sadko and The Golden Cockerel by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Lohengrin by Richard Wagner. Socialist realist operas by Belarusian composers such as Yuri Semenyako, Yevgeny Glebov (Your Spring, 1963) and Heinrich Wagner.
Works by Belarus composers in the company's repertoire today include Dmitry Smolsky's The Grey Legend (Russian «Седая легенда» 1978).
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