Armenian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
Grand neoclassical opera house overlooking an artificial lake shaped like a miniature Sevan.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Armenian National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Yerevan starts with the artificial lake behind it, built in 1963 by architect Gevorg Musheghyan to echo the curve of Lake Sevan. It traces how the lake got its name, Swan Lake, borrowed from the ballet that opened this very theater's stage in 1935, and the real birds that lived on the water through the Soviet decades, a short walk from Tumanyan Street. Sometime in the early 1990s, as Armenia's economy collapsed after independence, those swans vanished, and no record says exactly how.
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