Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre reopening after extensive renovation

MOSCOW — After six years of work by a cast of thousands, the Bolshoi Theatre is just days away from reopening night. Fragile tapestries have been taken apart and rewoven thread by thread, barely visible veins have been gilded onto the leaves of plaster garlands, and bits of long-hidden Venetian marble have been uncovered and replicated.

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Zachary A. Goldfarb 13 Oct, 2011

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