The Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet (, ), or shortly Ljubljana SNG Opera and Ballet, is Slovenia's national

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and

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company. Its seat is the Ljubljana Opera House at 1 Župančič Street () in

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. The Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet was founded in 1918. It is now a subsection of the

Slovene National Drama Theatre in Ljubljana The Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Drama (, ), or the Slovene National Theatre Drama in Ljubljana, is the national theatre in Ljubljana, Slovenia, best known for its conservative repertoire, including classical European dramatic texts and sel ...

( and has about 50 dancers. Since 2013, its director has been the lawyer Peter Sotošek Štular, and its artistic director the opera stage director Rocc (Rok Rappl). Both SNG and SNT are used. (One is the initials of the name in English; the other is the Slovene initials.)

History

The history of opera in Slovenia goes back to Giuseppe Clemente de Bonomi's ''Il Tamerlano'' in 1732. Operas were at first staged in the Provincial Theatre Building at

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, at the site of today's National Philharmonics Building. The Ljubljana Opera House was built in 1892. The Provincial Theatre (, the predecessor of the Ljubljana SNG Opera and Ballet, until 1911 shared premises with the German Theatre (), which then moved to the Ljubljana Drama Theatre. In 1918, the company was enlarged with its own orchestra and a professional ballet group. The conductor Mirko Polič performed Western repertoire as well as Slavic works such as the ballets of the Bulgarian composer Pancho Vladigerov and works of the Slovene composer Marij Kogoj. The current repertoire includes Massenet, Rossini,

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, etc.Repertoire

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History

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