S. Krushelnytska National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Opera Theatre of Lviv), Lviv

Lviv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Solomiya Krushelnytska: the pearl of Lviv

The Lviv Opera Theatre is on the must-visit list of all tourists and guests of the city. If you do not hear an opera or watch a ballet, then at least look at the facade of the building. It is one of the most beautiful theatres not only in Lviv but in all of Europe. Incidentally, the building was erected in only three years and the first performance was presented in it as early as 1900. This date is even more impressive when you note that for the construction of the theatre the natural course of the Poltva river was specially changed. It now flows under the Lviv cobblestones.

Besides its visual beauty, at the Lviv Opera Theatre one can enjoy high-quality productions of operas, operettas and ballets: the pure sound of the singers’ voices and the accomplished, polished movements of the ballerinas and male dancers.

The theatre’s repertoire is made up of the best examples of Ukrainian and European musical art: the operas «Aida» and «La traviata» by Giuseppe Verdi, «Carmen» by Georges Bizet, «Madama Butterfly» by Giacomo Puccini, «Orfeo ed Euridice» by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the Ukrainian opera «Zaporozhets za Dunayem» by Semen Hulak-Artemovskyi; the ballets «Swan Lake» by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, «Giselle» and «Le Corsaire» by Adolphe Adam, «Don Quixote» by Ludwig Minkus, «Romeo and Juliet» by Sergei Prokofiev… Watching an opera or ballet at the Lviv Opera will be one of your brightest memories, and you will certainly want to come again.