Oksana Deniakova

Ten puppet theaters from various cities of Ukraine took part in the festival. The sky was the limit where genres and plots were concerned, and the jury members watched a broad variety of performances. There were both puppets and live actors on stage, and traditional as well as experimental...

Emmerich Kalman’s The Violet of Montmartre (Das Veilchen vom Montmartre) stands out from the rest of his works. The dialogue of this piece of light opera is somewhat dull and the operetta was not exactly popular with audiences, although music critics called it the operetta version of Giacomo...

Yalta recently hosted the 12th All-Ukrainian Lesia Ukrainka Competition of Professional Reciters, which gathered young performers from various regions of the country. The jury was presided over by the well-known actress Raisa Nedashkivska, who came to the Crimea despite a leg fracture. “I so revere...