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About theatre

About theatre

The Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre is the oldest opera house in Ukraine!

Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre is one of the five most beautiful theatres in the world.

Forbes has included the Odesa Opera in the list of the most significant monuments of Eastern Europe.

The theatre was built over three years (from 1884 to 1887) on the site of the First City Theatre, which burned down in 1873. The project cost one and a half million gold rubles, the theatre building was equipped with the latest technology.

This is the first opera house built in Ukraine.

Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre plays a significant role in the cultural life of Europe. It is here, for the first time in Ukraine, sounded such famous and popular operas as “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” by G. Rossini, “Lucia di Lammermoor”, “L’Elisir d’Amore” by G. Donizetti and “Tosca” by G. Puccini.

The theatre’s repertoire includes more than 80 opera, ballet, children’s performances and concert programs. Odesa Opera House is one of the few theatres where organ music concerts take place.

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Opera

RIGOLETTO

Giuseppe Verdi

Опера виконується з двома антрактами
Лібрето Франческо Марія П’яве за п’єсою Віктора Гюго «Король забавляється»

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Ballet

DON QUIXOTE

Ludwig Minkus

Ballet in 2 acts
Based on an episode from the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes

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Opera

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA

Pietro Mascagni

Opera in one act
Libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci
Based on the short story by Giovanni Verga

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Ballet

BOLÉRO

Maurice Ravel

Ballet in one act
Choreography and libretto by Georgy Kovtun

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Ballet

THE TANGO OF FIRE AND ICE

Music by Astor Piazzolla, Edgardo Donato and Mariano Mores

Ballet in one act
Libretto by Tetiana Poderska
Author and choreographer - Yanina Kyselyova

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Opera

CARMEN

Georges Bizet

Opera in 4 acts
The libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella by Prosper Mérimée

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Concert

CONCERT OF THE ORGAN MUSIC

Concert in two parts
Performed with an intermission

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Opera

IL TROVATORE

Giuseppe Verdi

Opera in 4 acts (performed with one intermission)
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano
Based on the play "El trovador" by Antonio García Gutiérrez

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Opera

KATERYNA

Olexander Rodin

Opera in two acts
Libretto by Olexander Rodin after the poem by Taras Shevchenko

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Ballet

GISELLE

Adolphe Charles Adam

Ballet in two acts
Libretto by Théophile Gaultier, Jules-Henri Vernois de Saint-Georges, Jean Coralli

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Opera

A ZAPOROZHIAN BEYOND THE DANUBE

S. Gulak-Artemovsky

Comic opera in 2 acts (performed with one intermission)
Libretto by S. Gulak-Artemovsky, edited by D. Pavliuk
Music arrangements by Ivan Nebesniy and Tymofiy Starenkov

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Opera for young viewer

THE WIZARD OF OZ

Music by G. Bizet, G. Donizetti, G. Verdi, P. Mascagni, G. Rossini, W. A. Mozart, G. Meyerbeer, G. Paisiello, E. Humperdinck, O. Rodin

A musical tale for the whole family in 2 acts
Performed in Ukrainian

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