Sakha Opera and Ballet Theater, Opera house in Yakutsk, Russia.

The Sakha Opera and Ballet Theater occupies a purpose-built Soviet-era building at 46/1 Lenin Avenue, completed in 1982 and renovated in 2000. Its auditorium seats 643 spectators. The company stages Yakut, Russian and world opera and ballet, including the national opera-olonkho "Nyurgun Bootur" by Zhirkov and Litinsky and Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".

The company traces its roots to 1940, when a ballet troupe and vocal collective formed on the basis of the Yakut state choir organized by composer Mark Zhirkov. In 1947 the studio staged the first Yakut national opera, Nyurgun Bootur, and ballet, Polevoy Tsvetok. The music theater received its own building at Lenin Avenue 46/1 in 1982, was reorganized as an opera and ballet theater in 1991, and in 2001 was named after writer Dmitry Sivtsev, known as Suorun Omolloon.

The repertoire mixes Yakut national works with Russian and world classics: M. Zhirkov and G. Litinsky's olonkho opera "Nyurgun Bootur", Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" and Verdi's "Rigoletto". The theatre also hosts the Verdi music festival, the classical ballet festival "Northern Divertissement" (since 1990) and the all-Russian ballet festival "Sterkh" (since 2000).

The theater stands at Lenina Prospekt 46/1 in Yakutsk, in a building erected in 1982 and renovated in 2000. Its auditorium seats 643. It is the only permanent opera and ballet theater in the Far Eastern Federal District, so productions by the resident company are the main reason to time a visit.

It is the only permanent opera and ballet theater in the Far Eastern Federal District and one of just four in Siberia, alongside Ulan-Ude, Krasnoyarsk and Vladivostok. In 2009 it received a special Golden Mask award for Vladimir Kobekin's opera production "Alexander of Macedonia".