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== 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>
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