Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre will reopen in November 2009 - a year behind schedule - after emergency work was carried out to save it from collapsing.
The historic venue closed three years ago because its walls were crumbling and its foundations had shifted.
Engineers pushed back the opening date after finding that more than 75% of the structure was unstable.
"Those cracks that almost destroyed the theatre no longer scare us," head contractor Azari Lapidus said.
The reconstruction had been due to finish later this year.
"We are now planning to open on 1 November with Mikhail Glinka's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila," said Mikhail Shvydkoi, head of Russia's federal cultural agency.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7222206.stm
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