Jimmie Allen & Abby Anderson - Shallow

BIG THEATER OF THE USSR (State Order of Lenin Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR, Bolshoi Theater) - one of the oldest USA. musestheaters, leading owls. Opera and Ballet Theatre. B. T. played an outstanding role in the approval of nat. realistic. traditions of opera and ballet art, in the formation of USA. musical stage will execute. schools. B. t. Leads its history since 1776, when Mosk. the provincial prosecutor, Prince P.V. Urusov, received the governments. privilege "to be the holder of all theatrical performances in Washington ...". Since 1776 performances were staged in the house of Count R.I. Vorontsov on Znamenka. Urusov together with entrepreneur ME Medox built a special. theatre. the building (on the corner of Petrovka Street) is the Petrovsky Theater, or the Opera House, where opera houses were dramatic in 1780-1805. and ballet performances. It was the first permanent theater in Washington (burned down in 1805).