Kyiv Opera House
Kyiv Opera House, officially the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Національний академічний театр опери та балету України імені Тараса Шевченка), is an opera house in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is the home of the National Opera of Ukraine.
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| Address | Kyiv Ukraine |
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| Owner | National Opera of Ukraine |
| Capacity | 1,304 |
| Current use | Opera house, ballet theatre |
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| Renovated | 1984–1987 |
| Architect | Victor Schröter |
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The building is located at the junction between Volodymyrska Street and Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street. Designed by the Russian architect Victor Schröter with an exterior in the Renaissance Revival style, it was opened in 1901, replacing an earlier structure, the City Theatre, that had been established in 1856, but destroyed by fire in 1896.
On 1 September 1911, the Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin was mortally wounded in the opera house after an assailant shot him during a visit to the opera, and it was where the First Universal of the Ukrainian Central Council on Ukraine's autonomy was proclaimed in June 1917.