Ayni Opera and Ballet Theatre

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Ayni Opera and Ballet Theatre
Театри давлатии академии опера ва балети ба номи Садриддин Айнӣ
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Ayni Opera and Ballet Theatre
Former namesTajik Musical Theatre
General information
TypeTheatre
Address28 Husseinzoda Street
Town or city Dushanbe
Country Tajikistan
Coordinates 38°34′7″N68°47′41″E / 38.56861°N 68.79472°E / 38.56861; 68.79472
Construction started1938
Completed1940 [1]
Opened1941
Design and construction
Architect(s)D. Bilibin, V. Golly, A. Junger, M. Zakharov
Website
operabalet.tj

Ayni Opera and Ballet Theatre, [a] formerly known as the Tajik Musical Theatre, [2] is a historic Soviet-era building and musical theatre in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The building was named after Tajik poet Sadriddin Ayni.

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Notes

  1. Tajik: Театри давлатии академии опера ва балети ба номи Садриддин Айнӣ, romanized: Teatri davlatii akademii opera va baleti ba nomi Sadriddin Aynī; Russian: Таджикский Государственный Академический театр оперы и балета им. С. Айни, romanized: Tadzhikskiy Gosudarstvennyy Akademicheskiy teatr opery i baleta im. S. Ayni

References

  1. Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Laboratory of Socialist Development : Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan, (Cornell University Press, 2018), 123
  2. "О Театре". Archived from the original on 2016-12-11. Retrieved 2021-12-20.