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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 Odessa 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.
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=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015201936/http://gorod.dp.ua/history/article_ru.php?article=166 |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref> The opera house was opened on 26 December, 1974, with a performance of with [[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.
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