The State Opera and Ballet Theatre

Lonely Planet describes the State Opera and Ballet Theatre as the salmon-pinkish building at the Southeast end of Sukhbaatar Square, and they definitely not wrong about that, but maybe I'm reading a little too much into it, but it seems like the author of LP doesn't think much of salmon-pinkish buildings, as though he thinks the State Opera and Ballet Theatre would have been better suited with a different colour.  To be honest, yes, it is a weird colour, but I've never seen a building that colour before, so it's interesting to me (incidentally, UB has at least three buildings that are a salmon-pinkish colour-- maybe they got a huge discount on stucco/paint that colour).  I also like th big concrete lions at the entrance and the Corinthian columns.  Walking into the theatre on a day when there is an opera or ballet is really very exciting.  Stay tuned to see what the inside of the theatre looks like (which I'll put up in a later post).