Chamber Music Opera them. Boris Pokrovsky, and Moscow State Academic Chamber Music Theatre. Pokrovsky - one of the most popular and well-known in the world of Russian musical theater. It is located on Nikolskaya Street, and is located in a building that used to be a famous restaurant complex "Slavic Bazaar".

The history of the theater itself Pokrovsky says in his book "My Life - scene." In Moscow, it was decided to reform the small opera staff, touring the country with a frank "hack." For this he was invited the chief director of the Bolshoi Theatre - BA Pokrovsky. He gave a performance for the company. Most of the artists "dropped out." There was a small group, which could be only chamber ensemble.

At this time, the young composer Shchedrin wrote a small opera "Not only love." This little masterpiece was rehearsed chamber ensemble. The performance took place on the stage of Drama Theater of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. It was a great success. So in 1972, she was born the Moscow Chamber Music Theatre.

When in 1972 was founded the Chamber Music Theatre, he still did not have a room. Performances are held at different venues. At that time, there were performances of "Much Ado - for ... .serdets" Khrennikov, "Sokol Federigo degli Alberigo" Bortyanskogo. In 1974, the theater finally got a permanent home - a small cellar in the "Falcon". A major role in this was played by the composers Shostakovich, Khrennikov. Increased troupe. It came to young artists, graduates of GITIS., Former students of the course of acting, which led BA Pokrovsky. In 1974 the theater premiere opera "The Nose" by Shostakovich. This performance was the hallmark of the theater.

For many years it was this theater was the only laboratory in the country, which worked on the modern opera. There were first heard operas by contemporary composers, "The Brothers Karamazov," "The Overcoat," "The Wedding", "carriage" Holminova, "Life with an Idiot" Schnittke, "Poor Liza" Desyatnikova, "Count Cagliostro" Tariverdiyeva and many others.

Since 2010, the theater each year, the birthday of the founder of the theater held a retrospective show of his best performances - a festival of performances by Boris Pokrovsky.