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The Abay Kazakh State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre is Almaty's grand performing arts venue, a neoclassical building on Kabanbay Batyr Avenue that hosts opera, ballet, and orchestral performances. It is named after the revered Kazakh poet Abay Kunanbayev.
The theatre opened in 1934 and was the first professional opera and ballet company in Kazakhstan. Kazakh composer Akhmet Zhubanov and others premiered nationally significant operas here, establishing Almaty as a cultural capital.