Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet

The Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Lvivskyi Natsionalnyi akademichnyi teatr opery ta baletu imeni Solomii Krushelnytskoi) or Lviv Opera (a, Lvivska opera, Opera Lwowska) is an opera house located in Lviv, designed by Polish architect Zygmunt Gorgolewski. Originally built on former marshland of the submerged Poltva River, the Lviv Opera now located on Freedom Avenue, the tree-lined centrepiece of Lviv's historic Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the city's Halych district. According to the inscription in the theatre lobby, the building was constructed between 1897 and 1900. Originally built when Lviv was the capital of the autonomous province of Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Lviv Opera (Lemberger Oper) first stood at the end of Archduke Karl Ludwig Avenue, was later known as the Grand Theatre (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. For four decades, the theatre 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 politic

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