Once upon a time, there was little girl Natasha. Her mother was a singer and her dad was a very famous composer. When that little girl grew up, she set out to present the classics in a way that made them accessible to children.
Now, thanks to this little girl, there’s a very special place in Moscow for young theatre lovers and that place is The Natalia Sats Children's Musical Theatre specializing in opera, ballet and dramatic productions for children. The world's first professional theatre for children, it is famous worldwide as the birthplace of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
The theatre opened its doors to the young ones back in 1965 and by 1979 the Children's Musical Theatre moved into the Palace of Children's Opera, which was designed especially for the company. To celebrate and kick off its new chapter, the theatre put on Puccini's «Madame Butterfly» which, by the way, was hugely successful in Albany, New York as part of a 1986 cultural exchange of theatre troupes.
And it's very hard to miss as it stands out from all other theatres in town thanks to the "bluebird of happiness" - the theatre's symbol and a true monument to the best of constructivist architecture – donning the roof. Once inside, children will never want to leave this palace of costumed characters, real birds singing in the aviary, decorative fish swimming in the aquariums and story-books painted on the walls in beautiful murals.