Romanian National Opera, Iași

The Romanian National Opera, Iași (Romanian: Opera Națională Română din Iași) is a public opera and ballet institution in Iași, Romania. It is one of the national opera companies of Romania. The first performance at the Iași Opera was on 3 November 1956 (the inaugural concert being Tosca by Giacomo Puccini), in the building of the Iași National Theatre, a historic monument that had been built between 1894 and 1896 by the Viennese architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer.