Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theatre

Dnipro Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
Дніпровський академічний театр опери та балету
	The theatre in 2013
Address	Dmytro Yavornytsky Ave; Dnipro; Ukraine
Location	Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine
Coordinates	48°28′12″N 35°02′17″E / 48.4701°N 35.0381°E
Type	opera house
Capacity	1148
Construction
Opened	1931
Reopened	1974
Website
	www.opera-ballet.com.ua

Dnipro Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Ukrainian: Дніпровський академічний театр опери та балету) is an opera house in Dnipro.

History[edit]

The first opera house in Dnipropetrovsk was opened in 1931 as the Dnipropetrovsk Workers' Opera House.^[1] In 1934–1937, Arsenko Arsen Dionysovych performed there. With the beginning of the Second World War, 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 approved the idea of creating the Dnipropetrovsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[2]

In 2017, ballet dancer and choreographer Dmytro Omelchenko won the AF Shekera Prize for staging the modern ballet Carmen & Jose.^[3] As of the beginning of 2020, the theater's repertoire included 18 operas,^[4] 18 ballets, 8 operettas and other musicals.