Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater is the first theater in Odessa in terms of time of construction, importance and fame. The first building was opened in 1810 and burned down in 1873. The modern building was built in 1887 by architects Fellner and Helmer in the style of the New Viennese Baroque. The interior of the auditorium is stylized after the late French Rococo architecture. The unique acoustics of the horseshoe-shaped hall allows you to convey even a whisper from the stage to any corner of the hall. The complete restoration of the theater building was completed in 2007. The theater is interesting not only for its architecture, but also for its rich creative biography. The theater has a great merit in the development of musical culture in Ukraine. Performed by artists whose names have glorified Russian art. The greats Fyodor Chaliapin, Salome Krushelnitskaya, N.N. Figner and M.I.Figner, Antonina Nezhdanova, Leonid Sobinov, Giuseppe Anselmi, Titta Ruffo, Mattia Battistini, L. Geraldoni, Mikhail Grishko, Arnold Azrikan danced here World - Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Ekaterina Geltser.