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.

Recommended

01
August
11:00
Ballet for young viewer
‎ALICE IN WONDERLAND (SVETLANA ANTIPOVA BALLET STUDIO)
Music of the 18th-21th centuries composers
Ballet for children in two acts (performed without intermission)
Audio recording is used during the show
02
August
16:00
Opera
NATALKA POLTAVKA
Mykola Lysenko
Opera in two acts
Libretto by Mykhaylo Staritskiy, based on the play of the same name by Ivan Kotliarevskiy
05
August
17:00
Concert
MUSIC HITS OF THE WORLD CINEMA
Music by J. Williams, H. Zimmer, K. Badelt, A. L. Webber and others
06
August
17:00
Opera
L’ELISIR D’AMORE
Gaetano Donizetti
Opera in 2 acts
Libretto by Felice Romani based on libretto by Eugène Scribe for the opera "L'Elisir d'Amore"
07
August
17:00
Ballet
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Ivan Nebesniy
Author’s project of the Odessa Opera
Ballet for the whole family in two acts, performed with one intermission
Libretto by Tatiana Poderska based on the fairy tale of the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
08
August
16:00
Opera
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini based on Pierre Beaumarchais’s comedy Le Barbier de Séville
09
August
16:00
Ballet for young viewer
SNOW WHITE
B. Pavlovskiy
Ballet in two acts
Libretto by Yanina Kyselyova based on the fairy tale "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" by Brothers Grimm
11
August
16:00
Premiere
for young viewer
The Carnival of the Animals
Educational project of the Odessa Opera
Performed without intermission
12
August
17:00
Opera
RIGOLETTO
Giuseppe Verdi
13
August
17:00
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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