The Chamber Music Theater was founded in Leningrad in 1987 by one of the leading Russian musical performance stage managers, Yuri Alexandrov. The St. Petersburg Opera company was gradually transformed into a State theater well-known and admired by opera connoisseurs not only in Russia, but in many other countries.

In spite of its short history, this opera company has great achievements. The repertoire of St. Petersburg Opera includes all types of operas, from comic opera and opera-buff to musical dramas, including operas by modern composers. Many of these operas were staged in Russia for the first time.

The theater is located now in the former mansion of Baron von Derives . Under the Soviets, the mansion housed several clubs, but, fortunately, the original old interiors have been preserved here. The White Auditorium of the mansion has had old musical and theater traditions. It was here that Fyodor Chaliapine and Leonid Sobinov used to sing. It was here that Isedora Duncan used to dance. Vsevolod Meyerhold used to work here, and among the visitors of the auditorium were Constantine Stanislavsky, Vasily Kachalov and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.

Now, after many decades, the mansion is a theater center again.

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