![]() ![]() In 1895, the city announced an architectural design competition, which attracted a large number of submissions. In 2000, the Lviv Opera celebrated its own centennial with another renaming, this time after one of the city's native daughters, Solomiya Krushelnytska, a renowned soprano of the early 20th century.Īt the end of the 19th century, local leaders felt the need for a large city theatre to be situated in the capital of Galicia ( Ukrainian: Галичина, Polish: Galicja). For four decades, the theater was known as the Ivan Franko Lviv State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, having been renamed in 1956 after the city's famous poet and political activist on the centenary of his birth. ![]() Originally built when Lviv was the capital of the autonomous province of Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Lviv Opera ( German: Lemberger Oper) first stood at the end of Archduke Karl Ludwig Avenue, was later known as the Grand Theatre ( Polish: Teatr Wielki) of the Second Polish Republic, and during the time of Soviet rule, entering patrons would pass by a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin. Originally built on former marshland of the submerged Poltva River, the Lviv Opera now located on Freedom Avenue ( Ukrainian: Проспект Свободи), the tree-lined centerpiece of Lviv's historic Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the city's Halych district.Īccording to the inscription in the theater lobby, the building was constructed between 18, and has remained standing throughout several changes in history. The Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet ( Ukrainian: Львівський Національний академічний театр опери та балету імені Соломії Крушельницької) or Lviv Opera ( Ukrainian: Львівська оперa, Polish: Opera Lwowska) is an opera house located in Lviv, Ukraine's largest western city and one of both Polish and Ukrainian historic cultural centers. Gorgolewski's plan for the Lviv Opera The theatre on the reverse of 20 hryvnias banknote The Lviv Opera as seen from Svobody Avenue ![]()
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