| Dnipro Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre | |
| Native Name: | Дніпровський академічний театр опери та балету |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
| Address: | Dmytro Yavornytsky Ave |
| City: | Dnipro |
| Country: | Ukraine |
| Location: | Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine |
| Type: | opera house |
| Capacity: | 1148 |
| Opened: | 1931 |
| Reopened: | 1974 |
Dnipro Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Ukrainian: 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.[1] In 19341937, 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.
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.[2]
In 2017, ballet dancer and choreographer Dmytro Omelchenko won the AF Shekera Prize for staging the modern ballet Carmen & Jose.[3] As of the beginning of 2020, the theater's repertoire included 18 operas,[4] 18 ballets, 8 operettas and other musicals.