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'''Dnipro Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre''' ({{
== History ==
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>
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.
== Gallery ==
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="170">
File:DniproOpera2.jpg|Dnipro Opera Hall
File:DniproOpera1.jpg|The theatre and fountain at night
File:DniproOpera3.jpg|Theater Lobby
File:DniproOpera4.jpg|Second floor foyer
File:Opera theatre fountain - panoramio (1).jpg|Opera Theatre Fountain
</gallery>
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