Opera

Opening 143 Theatrical Season

Sunday

   G. Mayboroda

YAROSLAV THE WISE
5
 
         ends at 21:40
Opera in 3 acts
 
Tuesday

   M. Skorulsky

THE FOREST SONG
7  
         ends at 21: 05
Ballet in 3 acts
 
Wednesday
CONCERT
8 soloista Tbilisi's Opera and Ballet theatre, People's Artist of Georgia
Paata Burchuladze
 
Thursday

   P. Tchaikovsky

9  
         ends at 21: 50
 
Friday
Premiere
10

   G. Rossini

CINDERELLA

 
Opera in 2 acts
   
(the Opera is carried out in Italian)
 
Saturday

   G. Puccini

MADAM BUTTERFLY (CІО-CІО-SAN)
11   Opera in 3 acts
         ends at 21 : 55
(the Opera is carried out in Italian)
 
Sunday
 
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA
12  
         ends at 21 : 50
Ballet in 2 acts
 
Tuesday

   J. Strauss (father),

VIENNA WALTZ
14

   J. Strauss (son),

 

   J. Strauss

         ends at 21 : 15 Ballet in 2 acts
 
Wednesday

   G. Rossini

15  
         ends at 21:30
Opera in 3 acts
 
Thursday

   S. Prokofiev

CINDERELLA

16  
         ends at 21 : 10
Ballet in 3 acts
 
Friday

   S. Hulak-Artemovsky

ZAPOROZHETS BEYOND THE DANUBE
17  
         ends at 21: 25
Opera in 3 acts
 
Saturday

   P.Tchaikovsky

18  
         ends at 21 : 20
Opera in 3 acts
 
Sunday

   L. Minkus

DON QUIXOTE
19  
         ends at 21:20
Ballet in 3 acts
 
Tuesday

   K. Khachaturyan

CARMEN SUITE
 
Ballet in 1 act
21

   M. Ravel

BOLERO
         ends at 20 : 30
Ballet in 1 act
 
Wednesday

   G. Donizetti

L'ELISIL D'AMORE
22
 
Opera in 2 acts
         ends at 21: 00
(the Opera is carried out in Italian)
 
Thursday
Premiere
23

   A. Malikov

LEGEND of LOVE
     
Ballet in 3 acts
 
Friday

   W. A. Mozart

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
24  
         ends atо 21 : 00
Ballet in 2 acts
 
Saturday

   P. Tchaikovsky

25  
         ends at 22 : 10
Liric scenes in 3 acts
 
Sunday
CONCERT
26 of CIS Youth Symphony Orchestra
conductor
Vladimir Spivakov
 
Tuesday

   P. Tchaikovsky

28  
         ends at 21: 50
 
Wednesday

   G.Puccini

MANON LESCAUT
29  
Opera in 4 acts
         ends at 21: 35
(the Opera is carried out in Italian)
 
Thursday

   M. Theodorakis

ZORBA the GREEK
30
 
         ends at 21: 00
Ballet in 2 acts
 
Matinee performances begin at 12-00 a.m. &

evening performances - at 7-00 p.m.

Tickets for performances at the NATIONAL OPERA of UKRAINE may be purchased at the theatre box & city theatre box-offices
Telephones for an information:                  
                   theatre box 279 11 69                                                                        the manager 234 71 65
Address of theatre: Vladimirska street, 50

 

Our theatre is one of the most beautiful Neo-Renaissance constructions in Kyiv. It belongs to the architectural suite bounded sounds of many epochs and centuries - from the golden-domed temples of times Kyiv Rus up to the refined rhythm of modern buildings of the beginning of the 20th century. Within its precincts, one can hear music by M.Lysenko and S.Hulak-Artemovsky, P.Tchaikovsky and N.Rimsky-Korsakov, A.Borodin and B.Lyatoshynsky, M.Musorgsky and S.Prokofiev... In the National opera of Ukraine, G.Verdi is widely presented; here the meeting with compositions by G.Rossini, G.Donizetti, Ch.Gounod, D.Cimarosa, A.Khachaturyan, M.Skorulsky, G.Puccini, M.Ravel, G.Bizet, L.Minkus, and others expects you. Now our playbill totals more than fifty performances of different composers, epochs and styles...

Limes

The National Opera of Ukraine...
This is a glory of Ukrainian musical culture, known all over the world the Opera-Ballet Theatre... It is a Temple, where a palpitating solemn ceremony takes place by the true and genuine art, merging hearts and souls of actors on the stage with these of spectators sitting in the auditorium; where great magic of music and dance brings all of us into the world of lofty matters, giving unmatched pleasure of harmony and spiritual enrichment.

A common feature that unites them is the artistic perfection of the best grade.
Almost every evening the curtain of our theatre rises to transfer the spectators to the surprising world created on the stage by talents of the artists - composer and conductor, director and artist, and performers... Whatever performance you see in our theatre, you will feel from the stage a power of talents, inspiration, skill and fidelity to the art.
The history of our collective began in November 1867, though it is necessary to add to it two previous Italian seasons. They had engrafted to Kyivers the taste to opera art, and made more active the public's struggle for opera theatre creation in the significant economic center of the Empire, university city, which then Kyiv was.
The national opera of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko has gone through many stages of its bright creative biography: from an opera city theatre up to the first stage of the state. It has received recognition not only in Kiev and Ukraine, but also in the world. Our opera and ballet representations delighted the spectators of France and Canada, Italy and Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, Denmark and Egypt, Lebanon and Hungary, Japan and Brazil, the USA and Portugal, India and Spain... More powerfully and more actively we have been integrating in the European cultural process, demonstrating the high level of the Ukrainian opera-ballet mastery, non-ordinary gifts of our artists, bright traditions, on which the greatest achievements of mankind in the field of musical culture and humanistic ideals determining in civilized process of our not easy historical time are based.

Petro Chupryna,
Honoured worker of Arts of Ukraine,
General Director of the theatre.