Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theatre
{{Short description|Theatre in Dnipro, Ukraine}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox venue
| name = Dnipro Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
| native_name = Дніпровський академічний театр опери та балету
| native_name_lang = uk
| image = Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Dnipropetrovsk.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| caption = The theatre in 2013
| address = Dmytro Yavornytsky Ave
| city = Dnipro
| country = Ukraine
| location = Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine
| coordinates = {{Coord|48.4701|35.0381|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
| type = opera house
| capacity = 1148
| opened = 1931
| reopened = 1974
| website = {{URL|https://www.opera-ballet.com.ua/}}
}}
Dnipro Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre ({{langx|uk|Дніпровський академічний театр опери та балету}}) is an opera house in Dnipro.
History
The first opera house in Dnipropetrovsk was opened in 1931 as the Dnipropetrovsk Workers' Opera House.{{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}} In 1934{{ndash}}1937, Arsenko Arsen Dionysovych performed there. With the beginning of the 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.{{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}}
In 2017, ballet dancer and choreographer Dmytro Omelchenko won the AF Shekera Prize for staging the modern ballet Carmen & Jose.{{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}} As of the beginning of 2020, the theater's repertoire included 18 operas,{{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 }} 18 ballets, 8 operettas and other musicals.
Gallery
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
References
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External links
- [https://www.opera-ballet.com.ua Official webpage]
{{State Theaters of Ukraine}}
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