Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet

[1][2] The Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet was founded in 1918.

It is now a subsection of the Slovene National Drama Theatre in Ljubljana (Slovensko narodno gledališče and has about 50 dancers.

The history of opera in Slovenia goes back to Giuseppe Clemente de Bonomi's Il Tamerlano in 1732.

In 1918, the company was enlarged with its own orchestra and a professional ballet group.

[3][4][5] The conductor Mirko Polič performed Western repertoire as well as Slavic works such as the ballets of the Bulgarian composer Pancho Vladigerov and works of the Slovene composer Marij Kogoj.