Odessa Opera House Blog

One of the most famous monuments of the world culture, the business card of the city. The Opera House in its beauty is on a par with the famous Vienna Opera and other pearls of European architecture. By rating of the magazine "Forbes" theater building on the list of 11 most interesting sights of Eastern Europe (2008).

In the guise of Odessa through the features of many cities in the world, but it manages to maintain its unique and unmistakable appearance.

This city is based on the Black Sea in 1794 – not a copy, but the synthesis, the result of a merger of cultures, customs, manners and temperament. By the will of the people who built it Odessa has absorbed all the experience of Urbanism, accumulated by mankind in the beginning of XIX century. Odessa compared with Paris as early as 1810, and thirty years later, was called one of the richest and most beautiful cities in Europe.

The architectural appearance of the Odessa Opera House is an eclectic Italian Renaissance and the Vienna Baroque, classical baroque and rococo style but all components are organically connected, and create a coherent composition.

Odessa Opera House is one of the most remarkable point of interest in Ukraine. At the same time, Opera theater is a heart of Odessa and its main attraction. In any time of the year, one can visit the theater and enjoy opera or ballet performances. The Opera located at the beginning of Rishelievskaya street – tourist area of old city.
First opera house in Odessa appeared in 1809. The young, quickly developing city, constructed opera building for being a cultural center of region. Having totally different architecture forms, first opera house was in the same place as modern one. Having served more than 60 years, the first opera theater burned by accident. Right after this event, city government started to decide, what to build instead of losted one.