Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre

Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre has been delighting the audience since 1938. In the first years after the opening of the theater, the basis of its troupe were graduates of the Bashkir departments of the Moscow Conservatory and the Leningrad Choreographic School. The premiere was held in 1940, when the first Bashkir opera, Hakmar, was staged.

An important stage in the development of the theater was the war years, when the Kiev State Opera and Ballet Theater was evacuated to Ufa, from whose actors Ufa artists learned a lot of experience.

Inextricably associated with the Bashkir Opera and Ballet Theater name of Rudolf Nureyev - an outstanding dancer of the XX century. It was here that he took his first steps on stage - first he studied in the ballet studio at the theater, and then was accepted into the ballet troupe. Speaking on the Ufa stage, he attracted the attention of specialists and received an invitation to study at the Leningrad Choreographic School.

Nowadays, the theater staff carefully preserves the traditions formed over more than half a century of the theater’s history and annually presents to the audience the best examples of foreign and domestic classics – works by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Verdi, Bizet and other outstanding composers. And since 1993, the theater annually hosts festivals of ballet art named after Rudolf Nureyev, which have become widely known in Russia and abroad.