Dnipro Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre () is an

opera house An opera house is a theater (structure), theatre building used for performances of opera. It usually includes a Stage (theatre), stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and building sets. While some venu ...

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper R ...

History

The first opera house in Dnipropetrovsk was opened in 1931 as the Dnipropetrovsk Workers' Opera House. In 19341937, Arsenko Arsen Dionysovych performed there. With the beginning of the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

, the company was evacuated to Krasnoyarsk, where the Dnieper Opera was merged with the Odesa troupe. The opera house was revived three decades later, on August 31, 1973, when the Council of Ministers of the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

approved the idea of creating the Dnipropetrovsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. The modern building was built on the site of a park. The architects based their design on the Zhytomyr Music and Drama Theatre, built in 1966, but both the exterior and interior design has Dnieper Opera has unique features. A feature of the theatre's square, designed by architect Pavel Nirinberg, was the light and music fountain 'Muse' by the sculptor Yuri Pavlov. In 2017, ballet dancer and choreographer Dmytro Omelchenko won the AF Shekera Prize for staging the modern ballet ''Carmen & Jose''. As of the beginning of 2020, the theater's repertoire included 18 operas, 18 ballets, 8 operettas and other musicals.

Gallery

File:DniproOpera2.jpg, Dnipro Opera Hall File:DniproOpera1.jpg, The theatre and fountain at night File:DniproOpera3.jpg, Theater Lobby File:DniproOpera4.jpg, Second floor foyer File:Opera theatre fountain - panoramio (1).jpg, Opera Theatre Fountain

References

External links

Official webpage
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