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About theatre

About theatre

Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater is the oldest opera house in Ukraine!

Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater is one of the five most beautiful theaters in the world.

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

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

This is the first opera house built in Ukraine.

Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater 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 “The Barber of Seville” by G. Rossini, “Lucia di Lammermoor”, “Love Drink” by G. Donizetti , “Longing” by G. Puccini.

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

Recommended

Opera

Il barbiere di Siviglia

Gioachino Rossini

Libretto by Cesare Sterbini based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy Le Barbier de Séville

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Opera

A Zaporozhian Beyond the Danube

S. Gulak-Artemovsky

Comic opera in 3 acts (performed with one intermission)
Libretto by Semyon Gulak-Artemovsky
In the literary edition of Maxim Rylsky

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Ballet Concert

Pearls of the world ballet

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Ballet for young viewer

Peter Pan (Svetlana Antipova ballet studio)

Music by Gioacchino Rossini, Edvard Grieg, Leo Delibes, André Messager, Johann Strauss

Ballet-pantomime for children in 2 acts
Audio recording is used during the show

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Concert

Odessa Opera – the Ukrainian Soul of Europe
#ŒuvresDuMonde

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Concert

Concert of the organ music

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Ballet for young viewer

Little Red Riding Hood (Svetlana Antipova ballet studio)

Music by Adolphe Adam, Ludwig van Beethoven, Giuseppe Verdi, Charles Gounod, Paul Mauriat, Gioacchino Rossini, Johann Strauss

Ballet for children in two acts
Based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault
Audio recording is used during the show

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