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opened 1990 · architect Konstantin Tersky
Helikon Opera, Moscow (RU) stages Mozart's Die Zauberflöte: 4 performances between 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-04.
Helikon Opera is a child of the perestroika years. The director Dmitry Bertman founded the company in 1990, opening on 10 April with Stravinsky's Mavra, and by 1993 it had earned the status of a state theatre. Its home is a former aristocratic estate on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street that once belonged to Princess Shakhovskaya-Glebova-Streshneva, a nineteenth century patron of the arts. For years the troupe squeezed grand repertoire into her little white-columned ballroom, turning intimacy into a signature.
A sweeping reconstruction between 2007 and 2015 roofed over the estate courtyard to create the 500 seat Stravinsky Hall, joined by a 200 seat second stage and the restored historic rooms, while the company worked in exile on Novy Arbat. Reopened in November 2015, Helikon now gives over 200 performances a year and is famous for irreverent, theatrically charged stagings. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte entered the repertoire in 2018 in the Stravinsky Hall, with a shortened children's version playing alongside it.
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