What is "arbat-opera"

Arbat-Opera is a chamber musical theatre– enterprise, created in Moscow in 1999. It was created at the initiative of a management of the Central House of Actors in Moscow, and Margarita Eskina (1933–2009), who was the director there for many years. In the Central House of Actors in Moscow on Arbat, the theatre received its first "residence permit". Since it opened the theatre has been headed by the known Russian opera director Olga Ivanova.