The Opera and Ballet Theatre can be called the “patriarch” among a great number of its cultural institutions. The theatre is interesting not only for its architecture, but also for its rich creative biography . Here Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov and others used to play their works. The artists whose names glorified the national arts also used to perform here. Great Fyodor Chaliapin , Solomiya Krushelnitskaya, Antonina Nezhdanova Leonid Sobinov used to sign on its stage, and the world famous ballerina - Anna Pavlova used to dance here. The repertoire of the theatre includes "Giselle", "Sleeping Beauty", "Don Quixote", "Masquerade", "La Traviata", "La Boheme", “The Little Humpbacked Horse”, "Iolanta" and others.