World Theater Day is celebrated every year on March 27. Admire the most beautiful and renowned theaters of the world in this photo gallery by ITAR-TASS
Most renowned theaters of the world
March 27 is World Theater Day
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Russia's most famous theater is the Bolshoi.
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Astapkovich The current building was constructed on Teatralnaya square in Moscow and opened in 1825
© Fotokhronika TASS/Reproduction/archive The Bolshoi Theater in 1986
© Fotokhronika TASS/Valery Zufarov Sculpture group decorating the top of the building of Bolshoi Theatre
© EPA/SERGEI CHIRIKOV Inside the Bolshoi
© AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko The Opera Garnier Palace ( Opera Palais Garnier) in Paris
© AP Photo/Francois Mori Aerial view of central Paris with the Opera House at center and adjacent streets in 1929
© AP Photo The La Scala in Milan is one of the world's most famous opera theaters
© EPA/GUATELLI The theater was inaugurated on 3 August 1778, after a fire destroyed the previous one
© EPA/MILO SCIAKY La Scala
© EPA/PAVEL WOLBERG The Vienna State Opera was built in the Neo-Renaissance in the middle of the nineteenth century
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Astapkovich Vienna Opera Ball is held annually at the theater
© EPA/HERBERT NEUBAUER Vienna Opera Ball
© EPA/ROLAND SCHLAGER Perhaps not one of the oldest, but vertainly one of the most widely known theaters in the world is the Metropolitan Opera in New York
© EPA/JUSTIN LANE The Sydney Opera House is recognized as one of the 20th century's most distinctive buildings
© EPA/BARBARA WALTON The Sydney Opera House opened in 1973
© EPA/KRYSTLE WRIGHT