Lviv Opera House: history, repertoire, troupe

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The Lviv Opera House has existed since 1900. At that time the city was called Lemberg and was part of the Austria-Hungary. Today it is one of the major centers of Ukraine. The Lviv theater is known far beyond the borders of its country.

History

Lviv Opera House was opened in 1900. The first performance of "Janek" by composer V. Zhelensky. The opening was attended by such personalities as G. Senkevich, G. Semiradsky and I. Paderevsky. The economic crisis in 1934 led to the fact that the theater was closed. It reopened only 5 years later. In 1940, performances began to be played exclusively in Ukrainian, excluding Polish from use. During the war, when fierce battles were fought for the city with the Nazi invaders, the Lviv Opera House was mined by the Germans, they planned to blow it up. But the Ural tank corps under the command of Lieutenant N. I. Antoninova managed to prevent the enemy from carrying out a plan to destroy the building. In 1956 the theater was named after I. Franko. Since 1966, he has had the title - academic. At the end of the 70s. the theater was closed for renovation. It lastedlong enough and ended only in 1984. Today, the basis of the theater repertoire is classical works.

Building

The competition for the design of the building of the future theater was announced in 1895. As a result, the director of the higher art and industrial school of the city, Z. Gorgolevsky, won. His project involved blocking the Poltva River with concrete vaults, since the central part of the city was built up very densely. The architect of the Lviv Opera House himself supervised all the work, not only construction, but also earthworks. The construction of the building began in 1897. Construction lasted almost three years. The building was built in classical traditions, in the spirit of the Viennese pseudo-Renaissance. That is, it combines two architectural styles. This is baroque and renaissance. Sculptures at the Lviv Opera House were created by A. Popel, T. Baronch, P. Voitovich and E. Pech. The building is considered an architectural and historical monument.

Performances

Lviv Opera House offers its audience the following repertoire:

• "Orpheus and Eurydice".
• Nabucco.
• Masquerade Ball.
• "Hamlet".
• Walpurgis Night.
• "Bat".
• The Barber of Seville.
• "The Magic Flute".
• "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
• Troubadour.
• "The Nutcracker".
• Don Quixote.
• "Iolanta".
• Swan Lake.
• "Stolen Happiness"
• "Scary Yard".
• "Reincarnations…"
• "La Traviata".
• Coppelia.
• "The Merry Widow".
• "Zaporozhets beyond the Danube".
• "Village honor".
• "Fit"
• "Paquita".
• "Aida".
• "Love Potion".
• "Natalka Poltavka".
• Romeo and Juliet.
• "The Creation of the World".
• "Madama Butterfly".
• Gypsy Baron.
• "Vain Precaution".
• "Carmen".
• Rigoletto.
• "Lily".
• Corsair.
• "The Tsar's Bride".
• "La Boheme".
• "Clowns".
• "Carmen Suite".
• Francesca da Rimini.
• "Longing".
• Return of the Butterfly.
• "La Bayadère".
• Esmeralda.
• Giselle.
• "Moses".

As well as various concert programs.

Troup

Lviv Opera House is a huge troupe, which includes artists of different genres. These are vocalists, and dancers, and musicians, and choristers, and mimans.

Opera company:

• Yulia Lysenko.
• Yana Voytyuk.
• Oleg Likhach.
• Yuri Shevchuk.
• Vitaly Zagorbensky.
• Love Kachala.
• Tatiana Olenich.
• Aleksey Danilchuk.
• Pyotr Radeiko.
• Vladimir Chibisov.
• Lyudmila Ostash.
• Roman Kovalchuk.
• Ruslan Feranc
• Yuri Trisetsky.
• Svetlana Mamchur.
• Vasily Sadovsky.
• Marfa Shumkova.
• Andrey Benyuk.
• SvetlanaRazina.
• Oleg Lanovoy.
• Andrey Savka.
• Natalia Romanyuk.
• Yuri Getsko.
• Stefan Pyatnichko.
• Nazar Pavlenko.
• Lyudmila Savchuk.
• Natalia Datsko.
• Vladimir Dutchak.
• Roman Korentsvet.
• Galina Vilkha.
• Oleg Sadetsky.
• Stepan Tarasovich.
• Vitaly Voitko.
• Orest Sidor.
• Roman Trokhimuk.
• Natalia Velichko.
• Vera Koltun.
• Mikhail Malafey.
• Anastasia Kornutyak.
• Dmitry Kokotko.
• Roland Marchuk.
• Tatiana Vahnovska.
• Nikolay Kornutyak.
• Veronika Kolomishcheva.
• Anatoly Lipnik.
• Igor Mikhnevich.
• Natalya Kuriltsev.

Ballet Company:

• Evgenia Korshunova.
• Tatiana Prokofieva.
• Yulia Michalikha-Roma.
• Albina Yakimenko.
• Oleg Petrik.
• Katerina Kruk.
• Anastasia Gnatishin.
• Anna Surmina.
• Natalya Didik.
• Andrey Mikhalikha.
• Inna Melnik.
• Christina Trach.
• Miroslav Melnik.
• Evgeny Svetlitsa.
• Anastasia Yusupova.
• Daria Emelyantseva.
• Vitaly Ryzhiy.
• Nikolay Sanzharevsky.
• Ulyana Korchevska.
• Sergey Kachura.
• Alena Mitsko.
• Natalia Pello.
• Yarina Kotis.
• Victoria Tkach.
• Sergey Merzlyakov.
• Yulia Ermolenko.
• Viktor Gatseliuk.
• Alexey Potemkin.
• Stanislav Olshansky.
• Andrey Gavrishkov.

And others.