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{{Short description |Modern opera houseTheatre in Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro, Ukraine}}

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[[File:Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Dnipropetrovsk.jpg|thumb|280px|Dnipropetrovsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet]]

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'''Dnipro Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre''' ({{lang-uk|Дніпровський академічний театр опери та балету}}) is an [[opera house]] in [[Dnipro]].

| name = Dnipro Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre

| native_name = Дніпровський академічний театр опери та балету

| native_name_lang = uk

[[File:| image = Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Dnipropetrovsk.jpg|thumb|280px|Dnipropetrovsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet]]

| image_size = 250px

| caption = The theatre in 2013

| address = Dmytro Yavornytsky Ave

| city = [[Dnipro]]

| country = Ukraine

| ___location = [[Dnipro]], [[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]], [[Ukraine]]

| coordinates = {{coordCoord|48.4701|35.0381|type:landmark_region:UAlandmark|display=inline,title}}

| type = [[opera house]]

| capacity = 1148

| opened = 1931

| reopened = 1974

| website = {{URL|https://www.opera-ballet.com.ua/}}

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'''Dnipro Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre''' ({{lang-langx|uk|Дніпровський академічний театр опери та балету}}) is an [[opera house]] in [[Dnipro]].

The first opera house in Dnipropetrovsk was opened in 1931 as the Dnipropetrovsk Workers' Opera House.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://musicinukrainian.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/ukrainska_muzychna_entsyklopediia_tom_1.pdf |title=Українська музична енциклопедія |publisher=ІМФЕ НАНУ |year=2006 |pages=628–629 |language=uk}}</ref> In 1934{{ndash}}1937, Arsenko Arsen Dionysovych performed there. With the beginning of the [[World War II|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.

== History ==

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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-10-15 |title=История Днепра (Днепропетровска) и Приднепровья |url=http://gorod.dp.ua/history/article_ru.php?article=166 |access-date=2022-04-23 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015201936/http://gorod.dp.ua/history/article_ru.php?article=166 |archive-date=15 October 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The opera house was opened on 26 December 1974, with a performance of [[Tchaikovsky]] 's ballet ''[[Swan Lake]]''.

The first opera house in [[Dnipro|Dnipropetrovsk]] was opened in 1931 as the Dnipropetrovsk Workers' Opera House.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://musicinukrainian.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/ukrainska_muzychna_entsyklopediia_tom_1.pdf |title=Українська музична енциклопедія |publisher=ІМФЕ НАНУ |year=2006 |pages=628–629 |language=uk}}</ref> In 1934{{ndash}}1937, Arsenko Arsen Dionysovych performed there. With the beginning of the [[World War II|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.{{cn|date=January 2024}}

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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-10-15 |title=История Днепра (Днепропетровска) и Приднепровья |url=http://gorod.dp.ua/history/article_ru.php?article=166 |access-date=2022-04-23 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015201936/http://gorod.dp.ua/history/article_ru.php?article=166 |archive-date=15 October 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The opera house was opened on 26 December 1974, with a performance of [[Tchaikovsky]] 's ballet ''[[Swan Lake]]''.

Petro Varivoda was the conductor at the opera house from 1974 to 1994. Among the outstanding soloists who have performed there are the bass Yuri Sabin-Gus, mezzo-soprano Nonna Surzhina, tenor Alexander Vostryakov, baritone Mykola Poludenny. From 1974 to 1988, most of the choreography was directed by L.V. Voskresenskaya.

In 2017, ballet dancer and choreographer Dmytro Omelchenko won the AF Shekera Prize for staging the modern ballet ''Carmen & Jose''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Артисту балету Дніпропетровського театру вручили премію імені А. Ф. Шекери {{!}} Music-Review Ukraine |url=http://m-r.co.ua/mr/mr.nsf/0/3340A4812138491CC225823B007471AE?OpenDocument |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=m-r.co.ua}}</ref> As of the beginning of 2020, the theater's repertoire included 18 operas,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-22 |title=Чи буває опера сучасною? {{!}} Український інтерес |url=https://uain.press/blogs/chy-buvaye-opera-suchasnoyu-1165429 |access-date=2022-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022185048/https://uain.press/blogs/chy-buvaye-opera-suchasnoyu-1165429 |archive-date=2020-10-22 }}</ref> 18 ballets, 8 operettas and other musicals.

Recognition of the troupe of the Dnipropetrovsk Opera and Ballet Theater within the USSR was a tour on the stage of the [[Bolshoi Theatre|Bolshoi Theater]] in 1988. With the beginning of [[Perestroika]], the theater also begins active international touring activities, in particular, Dnipropetrovsk artists perform on the stages of France, Italy, China and the United States.

== Gallery ==

During the 1990s, the ballet dancers Anna Dorosh and Maxim Chepyk performed at the theatre as well as the opera singers Victor Lutsyuk, Eduard Sribnytsky, and Valentina Kovalenko.

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File:DniproOpera2.jpg|Dnipro Opera Hall

In 2017, ballet dancer and choreographer Dmytro Omelchenko won the AF Shekera Prize for staging the modern ballet ''Carmen & Jose''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Артисту балету Дніпропетровського театру вручили премію імені А. Ф. Шекери {{!}} Music-Review Ukraine |url=http://m-r.co.ua/mr/mr.nsf/0/3340A4812138491CC225823B007471AE?OpenDocument |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=m-r.co.ua}}</ref>

File:DniproOpera1.jpg|The theatre and fountain at night

File:DniproOpera3.jpg|Theater Lobby

As of the beginning of 2020, the theater's repertoire included 18 operas,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-22 |title=Чи буває опера сучасною? {{!}} Український інтерес |url=https://uain.press/blogs/chy-buvaye-opera-suchasnoyu-1165429 |access-date=2022-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022185048/https://uain.press/blogs/chy-buvaye-opera-suchasnoyu-1165429 |archive-date=2020-10-22 }}</ref> 18 ballets, 8 operettas and other musicals.

File:DniproOpera4.jpg|Second floor foyer

File:Opera theatre fountain - panoramio (1).jpg|Opera Theatre Fountain

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