After the fire, the fire that killed the first city theater was built new, which is considered one of the best in the world. It opened in 1887. On its stage singing Battistini and Caruso, Chaliapin and Sobinov, the conductor's stand stood by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov ... On stage, the Russian theater, which opened in 1875, were Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. Scene of Odessa were leading figures of the Ukrainian theater - Marc Kropyvnytskyi brothers Tobilevichi, Maria Zankovetskaya ... Today, the city operates six state theaters.
In the history of musical culture of Odessa is known as the city that gave birth to the great musicians of the twentieth century - David Oistrakh, Emil Gilels, Sviatoslav Richter. It was founded and continues to actively educate musicians world-famous school named after Professor Peter Stolyarovsky.
Odessa - a city with which the works of great artists, such as Ivan Aivazovsky, Kyriakos Kostandi, Wassily Kandinsky ... In our town formed the world-famous South Russian school of painting, which is close to the aesthetics of French Impressionism.
From Odessa connected literary works of many world famous writers: Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Kuprin, Sholom Aleichem, and Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Nachman Bialik, Isaac Babel ...
World Values have the meeting of the Odessa museums.
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