Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, will open in the City Day

Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, to be opened after restoration. Yesterday Rector Conservatory Alexander Sokolov, along with representatives Moskomnasledie gave a tour for journalists still smells of paint room. Restoration began in 2008, went step by step. Great Hall was closed last summer. Restorers for works year. This severe limitation has been connected with the July Tchaikovsky Competition, which is held only here. And restorers managed. Moreover Moskomnasledie experts rated the quality of their work as the best example of the restoration of the past five years. According to the deputy head of the Moscow Heritage Committee Svirina Helena, is the success of efforts primarily on the fact that, at the Great Hall entrusted bring Petersburg restorers. Together they worked with another 12 subcontractors. The work went very smoothly - almost like a choir. Thus restored portraits restored grille and grisaille over the entrance to the central door of the hall, updated furniture in the garage, ceiling lighting, curtains and carpets. - The main thing in the building - it's acoustic, so the restoration was very carefully: Choose the materials, the best influence on the sound and still meet the requirements of fire safety - said: "RG" the chief architect of the restoration of Mikhail Kazakov. - The month of picking colors for the walls has become, in the end room now, what he had seen for the first time in 1895. Completely replaced flooring, because it was all covered in "resonance" with nails. All this has greatly improved the acoustics, despite the fact that it was one of the best European conservatories. Viewers will be able, this 4th See September - City Day. Another new "feature" - the restored stained glass window of St. Cecilia - patron saint of music. It was found from the fragments of stained glass, created during the Second World War. But redevelopment is underway. Shortly before the completion of the work on the "yield buried" in the Middle Kislovsky Lane. After completion, it will move the conservatory dining hall. And instead of the current dining room is a closet. The plans and the construction of the Opera House. It is a new building, the most likely place to be lanes in the vicinity of one of the bearings in Kislovskaya. And next summer to begin work on the reconstruction of the organ. By the way, the authority of the Great Hall - a French product specifically for the space and appear at the World Exhibition in Paris with the Eiffel Tower. Use it in the 2011/12 season it will not be. Fully restored conservatory to be completed by 2016.