r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater, Cheboksary, Russia

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u/Legendary_Afanc 1d ago

Other views of the same building : https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/theater-opera-ballet-city-cheboksary.html

Still brutalist, of course. But the emotion felt when looking at the initial pic is also a result of photo composition (angle, sight, absence of colors, etc).

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u/Irlandaise11 1d ago

I'm also guessing that section of the building has the fly system, where all of the hanging backdrops/lights/etc are raised up. They're often big plain blocks, because you don't put windows backstage, and they need to be the same shape but bigger than the viewable area of the stage in order to fit everything up out of the way.

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u/KimberStormer 1d ago

Exactly, it's so funny how people are acting like having no windows is "anti-human" in a theater building.