Olha Kobylyanska Theatre
Austria–Hungary · Other
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Olha Kobylianska Chernivtsi Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre (Ukrainian: Чернівецький академічний обласний український музично-драматичний театр імені Ольги Кобилянської), also known as Kobylianska Drama Theatre, is a drama and music theatre located in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. The current building of the theater is a neobaroque architectural monument of national significance, built in 1905 by an Austrian architectural bureau Fellner & Helmer.
In 1940, the theater received its first professional crew. In 1954, it was renamed after a Ukrainian writer and playwright Olha Kobylianska. In 2023, a new workshop chamber stage space of the theater was opened in the building of a historic electrical substation on Lesi Ukrainky Street.
Chernivtsi Music and Drama Theatre is a part of European Route of Historic Theatres.
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