National Opera of Ukraine
Neo-Renaissance opera and ballet house with griffins bearing a lyre above its curved facade.
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This audio guide to the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv begins on a winter morning in eighteen ninety-six, after a matinee of Eugene Onegin, when the company finished work in the old City Theatre. It then follows the architects, the site foreman and the hundreds of labourers and horses who raised the house you see today. Stand facing the main entrance, and look up at the sculpture above it, which the local clergy once had a say in.
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