In the capital Mariinsky theater] gave a series of New Year's concert

In Moscow there passed a blitsseriya of New Year's Eve concerts Mariinsky theater. Submission of the operetta of Shtraus Johann "Bat" on a scene Concert halls to Tchaikovsky's name became its main event. The expiring year was so difficult and gloomy that many serious opera theaters bravely decided to address to an easy genre and to play something from repertoire of the classical operetta. The choice Mariinsky theater fell on "Bat". Stepanyuk Aleksey became the director of a premiere. Surprisingly, but the original, author's version, and started singing to holes Soviet — with the Russian-language libretto was heard not from...