Larysa Tarasenko

To mark the 75th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy, Kyiv’s National Opera has staged a theatricalized concert of sacred music organized with support from the Ukrainian-Canadian cultural initiative “Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter.” This cultural and educational institution has...

The National Opera of Ukraine continues to please the audience with meetings with masters. Recently the soloist of the Vienna Opera Marian Talaba, who started his career on Kyiv stage, performed with the leading Kyiv vocalists Tetiana Anisimova, Lilia Hrevtsova, and Serhii Mahera in a play Turandot...

A year ago ballerina Kateryna Khaniukova left her second home, the National Opera of Ukraine, only to return and remind of herself as the soloist of the English National Ballet (ENB). For her homecoming she chose one of the brightest parts of her repertoire, the effervescent, jolly Kitri (Don...

For 10 years already, soloists of the theater’s ballet company, invited artists and bands, and musicians of the Symphony Orchestra, directed by Herman Makarenko, have been holding holiday performances on St. Nicholas Day for parentless children as well as people who serve disadvantaged kids...

Children were pleased to watch ballet Cipollino, composed by Karen Khachaturian and choreo­graphed by Genrikh Mayorov, the performance being part of the Kyiv opera’s repertory since 1995.The event was supported by vo­lun­teers, sponsors, and the city’s department of...

This joint creative project of the Kyiv Municipal Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet for Children and Youth and Kyiv Modern Ballet evoked a great deal of interest among the audience and critics. The idea is a brainchild of Oleksii Busko, who is also the production’s choreographer and...

An experienced painter, graduate of Dnipropetrovsk Art School and Kharkiv Art and Industry Institute, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Ivan Kovalenko has gone through a long and fruitful quest. He had success when working in watercolors, experimenting with impression and...

We learned about coming performances of Ukrainian classic operas and ballets at two international Baltic art forums, to come to the region for the first time since the nation’s independence, at a news conference on the signing of the agreement providing for the Shevchenko National Opera of...

Japan has recently held an anniversary gala concert of “dancing leopard” Farukh Ruzimatov, with Ukrainian ballet dancers taking part in it as well. The invitees included the principal dancer of the National Opera House of Ukraine Serhii Sydorsky, who showed his skill as a soloist and...

Exhibition in bright summer spirit richly adorned the walls of the art gallery “Art-Mix.” Paintings of the two artists completely different in technique, plot, and materials are united by the emotional fusion with folk art. Each in their own way – one in a concise and monochrome...