1990s
Unrest and destabilization in Georgia in the 1990s affected Tbilisi opera theater, as it did many others in the country. The government could not provide sufficient resources for theater to function: this prevented the creation of new scenery or costumes, the recruitment of artists, and maintenance of the already vulnerable building.Following the Rose Revolution, however, the newly elected government improved the situation in opera as part of its cultural reforms.
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