Liudmyla Zhylina

Performances by the Pavlo Virsky National Merited Academic Folk Dance Ensemble, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of this pre-eminent dance group, are taking place throughout Ukraine. Two gala concerts at Ukraine Palace have been sold out. The screens on both sides of the stage featured scenes...

With children clad in Ukrainian costumes singing in the lobby of Romodanov Institute of Neurosurgery administrative building with traditional bread and salt on an embroidered towel ready, there was an unmistakable atmosphere indicating that old friends were to come and the hosts were going to greet...

When Prof. Borys Sharvarko, People’s Actor of Ukraine and stage director, took the floor at a press conference summing up the first Ukrainian variety performers’ contest, the audience thought he had almost lost his voice over the five days of arrangements for the competition of young talent and...

Those watching the ballet La Sylphide on January 9 at the National Opera had a rare opportunity to marvel at the skill of Ivan Putrov, a fellow Ukrainian, currently a soloist with Coventry Garden. Last year, he appeared as Albert in Giselle. At the gala concert commemorating the centennial of the...

Even in ballet, such an art of the young, one finds few soloists aged 19 with kudos including victories at three international contests. The name of Leonid Sarafanov, who only recently diligently practiced pas as a student of Kyiv’s dance school, currently with the National Opera of Ukraine, is...

Last year proved very successful for Kyiv’s Rozumovsky Collection Salon Ensemble. It is a family group made up of violinists Valery and Oksana Supruniuk with their young son Vadym playing the bassoon. The key event was without doubt their trip to Germany to perform at the opening ceremony of the My...

For Ivan Putrov, student at the College of Choreography in Kyiv, a turning point in his life began in 1995 when he was conferred the Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland and won the first prize of the Second Serge Lifar International Ballet Contest in his hometown. The victory in Lausanne gave...

There was a host of paradoxes in the life of Vasyl Tretiak, an outstanding Ukrainian singer. For instance, he was the only child in a large Ukrainian family, who was registered as Russian because he was born in Kursk oblast. But still in infancy the future performer found himself in Poltava...

By Liudmyla Zhylina, The Day At the Staatsoper in Sankt Gallen he sang the title part in Verdi’s Attila. Unfortunately, being a soloist with the Ukrainian National Opera, he has never done it at home. And nor have the Ukrainian audiences ever heard and watched him as Pagano in I Lombardi...