Anniversary of the Bolshoi Theatre (1951)

Movie №4257, 3 parts, Duration: 0:30:26 B/W

Studio CSDF (RCSDF)

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A film report about the celebration of the 175th anniversary of the Bolshoi Theatre.

Reel №1

Panorama of Theatre Square, traffic.

View of the main façade of the Bolshoi Theatre from the opposite side of the street.

Fountain in front of the entrance.

May 26, 1951, delegations from the Union republics heading to the theatre.

Delegation of Soviet scientists.

Column of artists from the Maly Theatre with bouquets of flowers.

View of the theatre and fountain from the opposite side of the street.

Views of the auditorium.

View from the auditorium to the stage.

All-Union Committee for the 175th Anniversary of the Bolshoi Theatre. A.B.Danielyan, V.V.Barsova, V.A.Davydova. K.Zh.

Baiseitova, R.M.Glier, E.Ya.

Pakul. E.Ya.

Pakul and B.Mamedov.

Members of the committee on the stage. N.S.Golovanov. E.V.Geltser. M.D.Mikhailov. I.S.Kozlovsky and M.O.Reizen. A.Sh.

Melik-Pashayev and Yu.F.Fayer. A.P.Ivanov and S.Ya.

Lemeshev. O.V.Lepeshinskaya and N.D.Shpiller. G.S.Ulanova. F.F.Fedorovsky and V.V.Kriger.

At the microphone is the chairman of the committee I.A.Anisimov.

Applause from the audience.

Applause alternates with congratulations from the delegations.

Congratulations from Soviet scientists.

Academician V.P.Volgin speaks. V.V.Volgin and other scientists shake hands with the committee members.

Engineers from the I.V.Stalin plant come out on stage.

A gift from the engineers, a model of a new bus.

The committee applauds.

The head of the delegation shakes hands with the committee members. K.Seitliev delivers a speech.

The Turkmen delegation presents the theatre with an embroidered portrait of I.V.Stalin.

The audience rises and applauds standing up.

People take their seats.

The delegation of the Moscow Art Theatre comes out onto the stage. V.Ya.

Stanitsyn delivers a welcoming address.

Applause from the audience.

The delegation of the USSR Writers’ Union. A.V. Sofronov delivers his congratulations.

View from the stage into the auditorium. A.V. Sofronov shakes hands with the committee members.

The delegation of the Mariinsky Theatre (Leningrad State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after S.M. Kirov).

Congratulations are delivered by the theatre director, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Orlov.

Alternation: the audience in the auditorium, on the stage N.M. Dudinskaya and K.M. Sergeev dance a waltz by J. Strauss.

The committee members are presented with bouquets of flowers.

The Latvian delegation gives gifts to the Bolshoi Theatre.

The delegation of the Maly Theatre congratulates their colleagues. A.A. Yablochkina reads the congratulatory address.

Applause from the committee and the audience. M.I. Tsarev speaks.

Persons:

Danielyan A.B. -- Armenian opera singer

teacher

People's Artist of the USSR. Barsova V.V. (Vladimirova) -- opera singer

People's Artist of the USSR. Davydova V.A. (Mchedlidze) -- opera singer

People's Artist of the RSFSR

People's Artist of the Georgian SSR. Baiseitova K.Zh. -- Kazakh opera singer

dramatic actress

People's Artist of the USSR. Glier R.M. -- composer

conductor

musical and social figure

Doctor of Arts

professor

People's Artist of the USSR. Pakul E.Ya. (Pakule) -- Latvian singer

People's Artist of the Latvian SSR. Mamedov B. (Mamedov M.Rza-oglu) -- Azerbaijani opera singer

musicologist-folklorist

Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR

People's Artist of the USSR. Golovanov N.S. -- conductor

pianist

composer

choirmaster

People's Artist of the USSR. Geltser E.V. -- Russian ballerina

People's Artist of the RSFSR. Mikhailov M.D. -- opera singer

movie actor

People's Artist of the USSR. Kozlovsky I.S. -- opera and chamber singer

actor

director

People's Artist of the USSR

Hero of Socialist Labor. Reizen M.O. -- opera singer

Honored Artist of the RSFSR

People's Artist of the USSR. Melik-Pashaev A.Sh. -- conductor

People's Artist of the RSFSR and the USSR

Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Fayer Yu.F. -- conductor

violinist

Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Ivanov A.P. -- opera singer

People's Artist of the RSFSR and the USSR. Lemeshev S.Ya. -- opera singer and director

People's Artist of the USSR. Lepeshinskaya O.V. -- ballet dancer

prima of the Bolshoi Theatre

Honored Artist of the RSFSR

People's Artist of the USSR. Shpiller N.D. -- opera singer

People's Artist of the RSFSR. Ulanova G.S. -- ballerina

People's Artist of the USSR. Fedorovsky F.F. -- theater artist

painter

Chief Artist of the Bolshoi Theatre

Vice President of the USSR Academy of Arts

People's Artist of the USSR. Kriger V.V. -- theatrical figure

ballerina

ballet critic

Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Anisimov I.A. -- choral conductor

Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Volgin V.P. -- historian

public figure

Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Seitliev K. - Turkmen poet

statesman

People's writer of the Turkmen SSR. Stanitsyn V.Ya. -- theater and film actor

theatre director and teacher

People's Artist of the USSR. Sofronov A.V. -- writer

poet

publicist

screenwriter

playwright

Hero of Socialist Labor. Dudinskaya N.M. -- ballerina

People's Artist of the USSR. Sergeev K.M. -- ballet dancer

choreographer

Hero of Socialist Labor

People's Artist of the RSFSR and the USSR. Yablochkina A.A. -- theater actress

People's Artist of the RSFSR and the USSR. Tsarev M.I. -- theater and film actor

theatre director

master of artistic words

People's Artist of the USSR.

Calendar:

26.05.1951

Shooting locations:

Moscow

Seasons:

Spring

Reel №2

Applause from the audience.

Continuation of M.I. Tsarev's speech.

Alternation: views of the auditorium, the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army performs "Zdravitsa".

The orchestra bows to the audience.

Applause from the audience.

Members of the committee.

May 27, 1951, view of the main façade of the Bolshoi Theater.

The delegations head to the theater.

Members of the committee greet the guests in the A.V. Nezhdanova Choir Hall.

Workers of the Moscow "Red Proletarian" plant congratulate the artists.

Congratulations from the students and teachers of the M.S. Shchepkin Theater School.

Congratulations from the art workers of the Ukrainian SSR are conveyed by Z.M. Gaidai. R.N. Simonov congratulates the Bolshoi Theater on behalf of the E.B. Vakhtangov Theater. F.F. Fedorovsky and A.M. Gerasimov congratulate the theater on behalf of the USSR Academy of Arts.

Congratulations are read by A.M.Gerasimov.

Members of the Academy of Arts congratulate the members of the committee.

May 28, 1951, the facade of the Bolshoi Theater.

Cars drive up to the theater, people crowd at the entrance and go inside.

The beginning of the meeting dedicated to the theater's anniversary, views of the auditorium.

The curtain opens.

The Bolshoi Theater artists are on stage, the audience rises, everyone applauds while standing.

People take their seats.

The meeting is opened by the chairman of the committee I.A.Anisimov.

Everyone stands, the USSR anthem is played.

After the anthem, the audience listens to I.A.Anisimov's speech.

The audience applauds.

The speech is given by N.N.Bespalov.