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• Tallink becomes a major supporter of Estonian culture

  19.03.2019 / Alisson Kruusmaa

  

  Tallink Grupp today announced signing cooperation agreements with the Estonian National Opera and Vanemuine Theatre for three seasons, thus becoming the main sponsor of both cultural organisations. It is reportedly the very first time in …

• Premiere of „Romeo and Juliet“ by Sergey Prokofiev

  18.03.2019 / Alisson Kruusmaa

  

  On March 29, timeless ballet „Romeo and Juliet“ by Sergey Prokofiev will have its premiere. The story of “Romeo and Juliet” is the greatest tragic love story of all time. Shakespeare’s heartrending masterpiece is set …

• 2019/2020 tickets are on sale now!

  01.03.2019 / Alisson Kruusmaa

  

  The season starts on 14 August with the performances of Leonard Bernstein’s popular musical “West Side Story”. Again it is possible to enjoy the performances both in Estonian and English in the rendition of the …

• Last performance of „Estonian History. A Nation Born of Shock“!

  25.02.2019 / Alisson Kruusmaa

  

  On Sunday, March 3 the cooperation production of the Estonian National Opera and Kanuti Gildi SAAL, „Estonian History. A Nation Born of Shock“, will have its last performance. The opera tells a story of a …

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The Jugend-classicistic theatre building designed by Finnish architects Armas Lindgren and Wivi Lönn was the largest building in the early 20th century Tallinn. One side of the two-wing building was intended for a theatre and the other for a concert hall. This is so also today. Between the magnificent flanks was a lower part which housed a restaurant (the White Hall) and a cloistered inner court which gave colour to the building. The theatre and concert building was inaugurated on 24 August 1913. Sculptor August Weizenberg donated to the new theatre two of his most stunning marble sculptures, “Koit” (Dawn) and “Hämarik” (Dusk) which decorated the Red Hall of the theatre.

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