Stanley Koff

Review of Mariinsky Theatre

If you do not take the beautiful history, architec...

If you do not take the beautiful history, architecture, actors and quality of the performance, and approach from the point of view of the utilitarian-philistine representation, then this is a bad theater. Inconvenient chairs, strange seating in the boxes, narrow aisles, expensive and poor buffet. Grandmothers - caretakers, Cerberus, the smell of Corvalol in the lobby. Some viewers generally have a separate topic, it is not clear why they came to watch a performance or sneak to shoot it on the phone or their loved ones in the background. In general, a sort of Corvalol, insanity, a scoop ... does not pull for 21 centuries the cultural capital of the world