Opera and Ballet Theater in Sevastopol | The Metropolis Company

The Opera and Ballet Theater building is located on a plot of land located in the Leninsky district of Sevastopol, on the shore of Alexandrovskaya Bay.

The construction site has a significant height difference (up to 20.0 m) with a decrease in relief towards the bay. The border of the coastal part is characterized by the presence of a steep coastal cliff.

The Opera and Ballet Theater building confidently fits into the existing landscape and forms an ensemble with the adjacent memorial, to which it adjoins.

An elegant, wide-span, flying roof covers the opera house, located between Kapitanskaya Street in the south and the seashore in the north. From the street, the opera house can be accessed through a spacious entrance.

The heart of the project is located in the center of the building: an auditorium for 1,100 visitors, including a stage tower and utility rooms.

Additional functions such as offices, VIP rooms, and rehearsal rooms are located in a circular structure called the Belt. The belt covers the hall and is also functionally connected to it. The foyer area surrounding the auditorium provides a public and open space that spans both sides of the auditorium to the restaurant and the public terrace.

The public space is fully glazed from the outside and offers a breathtaking view of the 40-meter Soldier and Sailor Memorial and the Black Sea. As the basement extends to the bay, it forms a cantilevered terrace that soars above the steeply sloping landscape. The restaurant and the terrace are available to visitors at any time.

The spatial planning solution of the projected Opera and Ballet Theater is a building of complex geometric shape, with stained glass facades around the perimeter, with an open, operated terrace with a length of more than 20 m protruding towards the sea, which makes the theater's image unique.

The roof of the building is designed as a single structure on metal supports with overhanging edges on all sides and the removal of a canopy over the main entrance and a canopy over the terrace in the bow. The building has a relatively symmetrical, curved, streamlined shape, framed on both sides by external stairs leading to the terrace. Approximate overall dimensions of the plan with an entrance canopy and a terrace: 124.8 x 207.0 m.

Architectural and artistic solutions reflect the trends of advanced deconstructivist architecture with a dynamic layout of building volumes, decorative elements of the facades, modern exterior materials and create a single "flying" image of the temple of opera and ballet art. The elements and parts of the facade of the theater are characteristic of the style: deformation of shapes, broken lines, asymmetry, distortion, displacement of parts of the building.

The innovative component in terms of architectural solutions consists in a combination of junctions of curved shapes made of different materials, as well as in the presence of a curved multilayer roofing shell, where the facing facade panels made of fibreglass are located with an indentation from the waterproofing coating and drainage system, creating a smoothness of the basic shape.

The lower underground floor (LVL -03 at room -20.400) is an underground parking lot with ventilation chambers and technical rooms serving it. In addition, the floor has built-in loading areas of the restaurant's kitchen with "clean" and "dirty" elevators and a theater warehouse for storing cargo containers.

The upper underground floor (LVL -02 at -13.650) has an above–ground part of up to 40% of the floor area, including direct entrances for theater staff, exits outside from evacuation stairs, a large rehearsal hall for the choir and orchestra, as well as an entrance to the foyer for the audience of the Small Hall.

1st ground floor (LVL -01 at -8.700) - consists mainly of the above–ground part, except for the second light of the Small Hall. In addition to the required technical and storage facilities, on this LVL -01 level there are offices of the production department, which have natural lighting, as well as rooms for orchestra musicians, including men's and women's locker rooms, rehearsal and tuning rooms, a conductor's lounge, etc. The rooms for the musicians are located under the Large Hall, in the immediate vicinity of the orchestra pit and are used by the orchestra members during the intermissions of performances.

Ground floor (LVL 00 on otm.0.000) is the main functional floor of the theater with a central entrance group for the audience, a ticket lobby, the main foyer of the Great Hall, dressing rooms for the public, a buffet, backstage spaces, toilets and having entrances directly to the stalls of the Great Hall. On the territory of the main foyer, there are also vertical communications (panoramic elevators, escalators) for lifting the audience to the upper tiers of the hall. The main stage occupies a central place on the building plan and serves as the functional core of the theater.

1st floor (LVL +01 on otm.+4,500) – the level of the first balcony for spectators, including the box and special rooms for VIP guests, as well as the level of the main restaurant with 350 seats. Access to the restaurant and the outdoor terrace is possible not only for Theater visitors, but also for the public outside, from the embankment.

2nd floor (LVL +02 at room +9.000) – the level of the second balcony for the audience and placement behind the stage of vocal classes, artistic dressing rooms for choir and for mimeance, as well as offices of conductors, concertmasters, choirmasters, etc.

3rd floor (LVL +03 on otm.+13,500) – the level of the third balcony for the audience and the placement behind the stage of all the main rehearsal rooms of the ballet with accompanying dressing rooms and dressing rooms of the artists. There is also a communal dining room for all theater staff on this level.

4th floor (LVL +04 on otm.+16.800) – the rehearsal rooms of musicians and the choir, as well as the offices of the musical management of the theater.

The building is equipped with passenger elevators for visitors, staff, theater technology, wheelchair access to floors above or below the floor of the main entrance to the building (ground floor).