Gala concert by the State Sivtsev-Suorun Omolloon Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

The State Sivtsev-Suorun Omolloon Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is the northernmost opera house in Russia and is located within the Arctic Circle.
The history of the theatre dates back to the 1930s and 40s when Yakutia saw the emergence of its first musical companies. In 1942 the ensemble was named a Musical Drama Theatre, and in 1971 it was reorganised as the Yakutian State Music Theatre. In 1991 the company was awarded the status of State Opera and Ballet Theatre, and in 2001 its title was affixed with the name of Yakutian writer and dramatist Dmitry Sivtsev, who wrote using the pseudonymn of Suoron Omolloon.
The theatre's repertoire includes both classical operas and ballets as well as national productions in the Yakutian language. In  2009 the theatre's production of Alexander of Macedonia. Kudangsa the Great (composed by Vladimir Kobekin) received a special Golden Mask prize "For creating a contemporary work based on a national epos."
The theatre runs international projects in collaboration with countries in Europe and Asia. In 1994 the theatre staged a Yakutian-Mongolian production of the opera Rigoletto. In 2004 on the initiative of the theatre's board and Japanese conductor Ikuo Yamamoto there came the project Yakutia and Japan through the Mirror of Cultural Collaboration. Under the aegis of the project in Yakutsk, Tokyo and Akashi there have been concerts and performances by Yakutian opera singers Aitalina Adamova and Nina Chigeryova, soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia and performers from traditional Japanese theatres. The theatre also takes part in the major German-Russian-Yakutian project Figaro in the Far East, as part of which in Germany there will be performances by Yakutian artistes, while in Yakutia there will be performances of works by German composers.
At the theatre there will be numerous opera and ballet festivals including Northern Divertissement, Siberian Crane, Aria of the North, Irina Arkhipova and Vladislav Pyavko Present..., Mozart beyond the Arctic Circle and Inspiration. In 2016 the theatre hosted its first international ballet festival. In 2015 the theatre received a Russian Presidential Grant thanks to which it has been able to stage a production of the opera Prince Igor (directed by Andrei Borisov). During the festival The Art of the Olonkho Regionthe production was performed in Beijing featuring Askar Abdrazakov as Konchak.