The Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet ( sl, Slovensko narodno gledališče Opera in balet Ljubljana, ), or shortly Ljubljana SNG Opera and Ballet, is Slovenia's national opera and ballet company. Its seat is the Ljubljana Opera House at 1 Župančič Street () in Ljubljana. The Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet was founded in 1918. It is now a subsection of the Slovene National Drama Theatre in Ljubljana ( and has about 50 dancers. Since 2013, its director has been the lawyer Peter Sotošek Štular, and its artistic director the opera stage director Rocc (Rok Rappl).

History

The history of opera in Slovenia goes back to Giuseppe Clemente de Bonomi's ''Il Tamerlano'' in 1732. Operas were at first staged in the Provincial Theatre Building at

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, at the site of today's

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. The Ljubljana Opera House was built in 1892. The Provincial Theatre (, the predecessor of the Ljubljana SNG Opera and Ballet, until 191 shared premises with the German Theatre (german: Deutsches Theater), which then moved to the

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. In 1918, the company was enlarged with its own orchestra and a professional ballet group. The conductor

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performed Western repertoire as well as Slavic works such as the ballets of the Bulgarian composer Pancho Vladigerov and works of the Slovene composer Marij Kogoj. The current repertoire includes Massenet,

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, etc.Repertoire

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