 Among the performances were "Demon", "Faust", "Aida", "Eugine Onegin", "Boris Godunov", "Rigoletto", "Il Barbiere di Sevilla".Perm had become one of the major operatic centers of Russia by the end of the 1920s.During World War II, when the Leningrad State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet evacuated its personnel to the city, its performances were given in the Perm theatre.