Opera and Ballet Samara Academic Theater, Regional cultural heritage site and opera house in Samara, Russia.

The Opera and Ballet Samara Academic Theater is a neoclassical building on a T-shaped square, designed by Leningrad architects Noi Trotsky and Nikolai Katsenelenbogen. Its central block rises above long side wings, with fluted columns and massive capitals; niches hold sculptures of a worker and a female athlete by Vasily Akimov, plus thematic bas-reliefs. A dark statue of Valerian Kuybyshev by Matvey Manizer stands at ground level to the right of the columns.

The theater opened in 1931 with a performance of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and was granted academic status in 1982. It was later named after composer Dmitry Shostakovich in 2022, recognizing its role in preserving classical music traditions.

The theatre hosts the Alla Shelest classical ballet festival, part of the European Festivals Association, along with the "Basses of the 21st Century" festival, the "Five Evenings of Togliatti" and the international Irina Arkhipova opera festival. Its ballet troupe was founded in 1933, two years after the opera company.

The theatre stands on a T-shaped square, with its main colonnaded facade facing the plaza and the central axis oriented toward Shostakovich Street. The building was shifted off the square's centre toward Galaktionovskaya Street during construction, so approach from the square side to find the columned front. The 2006–2010 reconstruction removed the sports school and art museum from the wings.

The building sits on the former Sobornaya Square where an Orthodox cathedral once stood before being transformed into a cultural center in 1930. This location change marks an important shift in how the community used the space.