Address
Volodymyrs'ka Street, 50, Kyiv
The history of the National Opera of Ukraine was initiated in 1867, when in Kiev, one of the major administrative centers of the then Russian Empire, after a long petition the government opened a permanent opera troupe. There was a first outside the capitals - Petersburg and Moscow - a musical theater.
In the center of Kiev, where the great metropolitan highways - Volodymyrska and Bogdan Khmelnytsky streets intersect, just in the middle between the golden roof of Sofia and the classical building of the Taras Shevchenko National University there is a building, which was poetically called the muse temple, the architectural pearl of Kiev. This is the National Opera of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko.