Abay Opera House

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Template:Refimprove Template:Infobox building Abay Opera House (Template:Lang-kk, Kazakh State Academic Opera and Ballet House Abay) was built in Almaty in 1934 and named after Kazakh poet, composer, and philosopher Abay Qunanbayuli.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Founder (1934) and first director - Yevgeny Brusilovsky, who created eight national operas and a ballet ("Kyz-Zhibek", "Yer-Targhyn", "Aiman-Sholpan", "Birzhan and Sara", "Kamar-sulu" and others).

Over forty western and Kazakh pieces are performed, including operas, ballets and classical music performances.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Another famous opera staged in the Abay Opera House - "Abay", music by Akhmed Zhubanov and Latif Khamidi, libretto by Mukhtar Auezov.

The last renovation of the building was completed in 2000.

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