Site one: The Ayni Opera and Ballet Theatre is the center of cultural life of the capital and the country`s leading musical theater. It was founded in 1940, when a dance group mainly performing folk dances in operas and drama plays was formed in Dushanbe. In 1941, at the theater was staged the first Tajik ballet, entitled "Du gul". Since 1954, a new generation of Tajik artists who received vocal and choreographic education in the best Moscow and Leningrad schools bought to the theatre the best ballet and vocal traditions, high culture of classical dance. Ballet troupe put on Soviet and world classics, and opera troupe performs works of Russian and Western classic operas, which are performed in Russian. Since that time, began an intensive work on the creation of new plays of various genres.
When we first got there we found out the time of a show we thought we would enjoy. The architecture of the outside and inside of the building was amazing. When we got into the performance that we had gotten tickets for, it was packed in there. We were toward the back, but still had a great time. The show was great and we enjoyed it a lot.
Site Two: Next up, we headed to Gissar Fort in Hisor, Tajikistan. Hissar fortress is the ex residence of Bek, a deputy of Bukhara emir. The fortress walls were 1 meter thick and had gun slots for rifles and cannons. Inside of the fort was garden and water pool. Stairs and brick terraces were lead to the main entrance but unfortunately they were lost with time as well as the palace building. The only part that remains till our days is monumental gates built of burnt bricks with two cylinder towers and lancet arch between them.
When we got there we thought it kind of just looked like a rock with a tunnel through it, but we were absolutely wrong. We walked through and saw many wall carving and amazing sculptors. We found it very amazing. This was an awesome experience and I would go there again some day.
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