🏛 Gonzaga Theater

Красногорск, пос. Архангельское, Ильинское ш.

A wooden theater of 1818, modest outside, with Pietro Gonzaga's original scenery and part of the old stage machinery preserved.

The theater opened on 8 June 1818 in the presence of Alexander I and the Prussian king Frederick William III.
Pietro Gonzaga himself never came to Arkhangelskoye: he painted the twelve scene changes in a workshop at the Hermitage Theater.
The hall seats only 250; Yusupov's troupe featured serf ballerinas, singers and musicians.
The original 6 × 8 m curtain and four scene changes survive, the only authentic Gonzaga originals.
In 1969 a "performance of scenery" was staged here: four Gonzaga sets were shown to the music of Rossini.
The building is wooden, but plastered and painted golden; the staircase on the south facade was added in 1828.

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