for a long time I wanted to visit the old stage of...

for a long time I wanted to visit the old stage of the Mariinsky Theater, because ballet horsecruns on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater 2 were not impressed absolutely. Well, since Maman visited us, it was a sin not to go to anything together. the choice fell on the sleeping beauty.
the impression was spoiled already at the entrance ... FRAME! frames in the old theater! this is crazy ... these frames will not save you in any way, just understand this. nowhere is there, only here)
the next disappointment were the seats. we had tickets for the third tier, it's understandable that these are the cheapest tickets (1600 rubles), all that, but you can probably respect your visitors more .. it's more than 3 hours to sit on narrow hard and uncomfortable benches - this is a new kind of torture of some kind! and people with back problems, joints, and so on. in general it is contraindicated to sit there! even in the stalls there were not comfortable chairs, but chairs! usual creaky uncomfortable chairs!
a few words about the dancers. because I do not have much experience in ballet, I do not know if it's okay or not, that the gentlemen in the bandage were getting on every step of the way. then the picture will be destroyed, then the movements will be forgotten .. The main actors, too, did not always do everything perfectly. it's understandable that all this is very difficult, but in general it was such an impression that people do not try at all, from which the impression of a beautiful ballet was completely ruined.
if I ever want to attend a ballet, it will definitely not be the Mariinsky.
I would just like to wish that people who work in one of the most famous old and beautiful theaters of Russia simply stop thinking about enrichment and begin to finally evolve