Theatre

Ruslan and Lyudmila

Mikhail Glinka ’s opera Ruslan and Lyudmila was staged at the Mariinsky Theatre and Bolshoi Theatre in sets designed by Konstantin Korovin and Alexander Golovin. In 1913, Ivan Bilibin designed the se...

Sadko

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera Sadko was inspired by the bylina of Sadko and premiered at Savva Mamontov’s Russian Private Opera in Moscow on 26 December 1897. The sets were designed by Konstantin K...

Le Médecin Volant

Molière’s comedy Le Médecin Volant was staged in the garden of the People’s House in summer 1921 and the Iron Hall (premiere 29 December 1921) of the Theatre of National Comedy. Between late 1919 and...

Pantomime

A production of Joseph Martin Kraus’ operetta Pantomime was directed by Nikolai Smolich and premiered at the Maly Theatre of Opera on 15 January 1927. The sets were designed by Mikhail Bobyshov, who ...

The Red Poppy

In 1929, Vladimir Schwartz designed the sets and costumes for Reinhold Glière’s ballet The Red Poppy or what the press called “the first Soviet ballet on a modern revolutionary theme.” The title of t...

Till Eulenspiegel

Isaac Rabinovich designed the sets and costumes for a production of Till Eulenspiegel at the Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre of Music in 1931. The artist audaciously reconstructed the architect...

Tiefland

In 1918 and 1919, Alexander Lappo-Danilevsky designed the sets for a performance of Eugen Francis Charles d’Albert’s opera Tiefland at the Theatre of Musical Drama in Petrograd. The opera was directe...

The Government Inspector

Nikolai Gogol’s comedy The Government Inspector premiered at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in 1836. In 1920, Isaac Rabinovich designed the sets and costumes designs for a a production planned by director...

Zangezi

The last play written by Velimir Khlebnikov before his death in 1922, Zangezi was an ecstatic drama written partly in the invented languages of the gods and birds. Vladimir Tatlin was the director, d...

King Maxemian and his Disobedient Son Adolf

The Russian folk drama King Maxemian and his Disobedient Son Adolf (in other versions, King Maximilian ) was extremely popular in the 1910s. There were hundreds of different variants of the play, whi...

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