RAISING THE CURTAIN

This book revolves around two modernist opera theaters?each designed by a leading female architect?on the Soviet periphery, in Lithuania and Belarus. They are the Opera and Ballet Theatre in Vilnius (196274) by Nijole Buciute and the Comic Opera in Minsk (197381) by Oxana Tkachuk. Raising the Curtain reveals how each theater was commissioned, planned and built, examining the contemporary political and cultural events that had been unfolding on the stages of the republics before and at the time of the theaters creations.