{"id":4164,"date":"2011-10-29T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T11:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2011-10-29T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T11:45:38","slug":"bolshoi-theater-restoration-2154","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/bolshoi-theater-restoration-2154\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolshoi Theater Raises Curtain after Six-Year Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bolshoi-theater.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4165\" title=\"Bolshoi Theater Raises Curtain after Six-Year Restoration\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bolshoi-theater-340x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bolshoi-theater-340x226.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bolshoi-theater-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bolshoi-theater.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bolshoi Theater, one of the main landmarks of the Russian capital and a symbol of Russian culture, reopened on Friday after six years of reconstruction with a gala concert attended by members of the Russian and international beau monde.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev were among the guests for Friday\u2019s performance at Russia\u2019s main ballet and opera house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very happy day for our country,\u201d Medvedev said from the stage before the concert. \u201cOur country is big, but the number of such uniting symbols, national treasures \u2013 what we call national brands \u2013 is very limited. And the Bolshoi is one of our greatest national brands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bolshoi Theater, built in 1825, closed for reconstruction in 2005. The reconstruction was initially scheduled for completion in 2008, but the project has been marred by repeated delays as well as a misappropriation scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sure that what has been done here will serve generations of our citizens, all those who like the Bolshoi Theater, for long years,\u201d Medvedev said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian government spent 21 billion rubles ($681 million) on the restoration, which involved more than 3,600 designers, builders and engineers.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s gala concert began with a performance reproducing the restoration work. Artists dressed in builders\u2019 uniforms and helmets performed the final scene from Mikhail Glinka\u2019s A Life for the Tsar opera.<\/p>\n<p>The acoustics have been improved significantly. The renovated theater has a back stage, extra foyers and cafeterias, and underground premises for storing stage decorations. The work has created an extra 50,000 sq meters of space in the building.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolshoi Theater Raises Curtain after Six-Year Restoration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sectoral","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}