National Opera. From 1994 the theater is managed by the general manager Paul Himma. The Estonian National Opera is the home of the symphony orchestra, the opera choir and the ballet. The theater repertoire includes classical operas, ballets and operettas as well as modern musical and children plays. The most popular performances are "Swan Lake" and the opera "La Traviata". The Estonian National Opera's majestic White Hall (218,8 m2) with its grand crystal chandeliers is an excellent place for festive receptions, formal occasions and dancing parties. The hall is provided with removable chairs (for 100 people) and tables. In the Opera House, next to the theatre hall is a spacious concert hall for 790 listeners. Concert hall is operated by state organization "Eesti Kontsert" and it is the main concert place of the Estonian Symphony Orchestra. 4
It has been used a storehouse for gunpowder and weapons, and as a prison. Now it's home to the Estonian Maritime Museum, which provides a detailed look at the nation's seafaring past. 3 churches of the lower town Niguliste - 13th-century Gothic church-turned art museum. Destroyed during World War II and rebuilt during Soviet times, the church now houses a fascinating collection of medieval religious art, with altars from the 15th and 16th centuries, a collection of Baroque and Renaissance chandeliers, and a 'silver chamber.' The church is also known for its acoustics Holy Spirit - 13th-century church adjacent Town Hall Square sports an impressive Baroque tower as well as an ornate, outdoor clock that's said to be one of the most photographed objects in Tallinn. A two-aisled church. St Olaf - St. Olaf's 124m spire is a Tallinn landmark, and was the tallest building in Europe between 1549 and 1625. An old legend claims that the church was built to attract more merchant
The church was also fitted with numerous side altars before the reformation. P o r g a s s a a r, Kristina; A l j a s, Eva-Grete; K u u s k e m a a, Jüri. Tallinn: Medieval capital. Tallinn: PhotoTour Other noteworthy items are the 17 th century pulpit and the carved wooden figures of the triumphal arch together with the crucifix, the decoration of the balustrade of the balcony, the 17th- century epitaphs to Bartholomeus Rottert and Michael Prosa, as well as the church chandeliers. The earliest reports of the Holy Ghost Church organ date back to 1511. The present organ was made by organ builder August Artur Terkmann in Tallinn in 1929. Among the older churches in Tallinn, the Holy Ghost Church has been most closely linked to the Estonians, even including claims by some historians that the church had been built on the site of a chapel of an Estonian congregation of the preconquest era of the 13 th century
The Baroque spire with airy galleries was raised higher stage by stage through several centuries. During the Soviet air-raid on March 9, 1944 the St. Nicholas' Church and the buildings surrounding it were severely damaged. The most precious art treasures survived merely thanks to their timely evacuation from the church. Hence, besides Baroque epitaphs and other masterworks of carving, a remarkable collection of Renaissance and Baroque chandeliers, as well as the 14-17th century tombstones covering the floor of the Chapel of St Matthew (later St Anthony), but also such invaluable rarities from the 1516th centuries as the high altar, the initial fragment of the famous painting Danse Macabre and the altar of St Anthony survived. The high altar of the St Nicholas' Church was made between 14781481 in the workshop of Hermen Rode, master from Lübeck. Paintings on the outer flanks of this double-winged altar
and styled for a Grecian goddess. It hung on one shoulder, cut diagonally across my cleavage, had ruching to the hip, and then split at my right upper thigh all the way down my leg. There was no back to speak of, aside from a slender strip of rhinestones that connected one side to the other to keep the front from falling off. Otherwise, the back was bared to just above the crack of my buttocks in a racy V-cut. "Forget the necklace," he said. "I was leaning toward gold chandeliers, but now I'm thinking diamond hoops. The biggest ones you've got." "What? Really?" I frowned at our reflections in my cheval mirror, watching as he moved to my jewelry box and dug through it. "These." He brought them to me and I eyed the two-inch hoops my mother had given me for my eighteenth birthday. "Trust me, Eva. Try 'em on." I did and found he was right. It was a very different look from the gold choker, less glam and more edgy sensuality
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