ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 9月11日 05時54分

The subtle charm of a walkable city is not to Nursultan Nazarbayev’s taste. He likes his streets wide and his buildings striking, ornate and spread around like they fell off a Monopoly board. Some look like they’ve been collected, souvenir-style, from all over the world. You drive down a street in Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital, and think: That looks just like the home of the Bolshoi Ballet. “That’s exactly what it is,” a guide explains. More specifically, it’s a rendering of the original in Moscow, repurposed for the nearly 700,000-square-foot Astana Opera House. Astana is what you get when a city builder with money to spare tries desperately to wow through novelty and scale. Or maybe it’s an effort to compensate for Kazakhstan’s years of obscurity. 5 years ago, the country won the rights to stage a “specialized expo” — essentially a giant science fair. A lot is is riding on the event. Too much, perhaps, given that it’s taking place in a city as remote and singular as Astana and devoted to a subject as bland as “future energy.” @maksimbabenko photographed members of the Astana Opera Ballet preparing to perform at the opera house. Visit the link in our profile to read more, and to see more photos.

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