National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Mongolia 1963 with Tchaikovsky’s "Eugene Onegin". The repertoire of State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet has more than 100 national and world classical works including 56 ballets, 54 operas. The operatic repertoire include world classic operas such as Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Puccini's Turandot, La Bohème, and Tosca, Verdi's La traviata, Aida, and Rigoletto, Bizet's Carmen, Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Otello, Gounod's Faust, Borodin's Prince Igor, and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin as well as Mongolian famous operas such as B.Sharav's Chinggis Khaan, Kh.Bilegjargal's Tears of Lama, B.Damdinsuren's Strife, D.Luvsansharav's Bare Truth and
Victoria State Opera rivalled those of the Australian Opera given in the same space. At its height, the VSO had over 13,000 season subscribers. In 1985 Brian Stacey was appointed as Head of Music. Other notable production highlights include appearances by Suzanne Steele, most notably in the lead role of "La belle Hélène" and as Eurydice in "Orpheus in the Underworld". There were also "Don Giovanni", "Tannhäuser", "The Pearl Fishers" (which toured to Sydney), "The Tales of Hoffmann", "Faust", "Aida", "Il trovatore", "The Barber of Seville", "The Magic Flute", "Andrea Chénier", "Turandot", "Madama Butterfly" (the traditional production by Andrew Sinclair or the Ken