Oleksandr Chepalov

Outwardly, the principal director of the Kharkiv Afanasiev Puppet Theater looks like... a ballerina, being as thin, slim, and stylish. Meanwhile, Dmytriieva’s profile view reminds of her Greek origin a bit. In conversation, she gets inspired, and then one only needs to be fast enough to...

On the eve of International Dance Day, annually celebrated on April 29, and shortly before celebrating the 175th anniversary of the first production of the classic ballet masterpiece Giselle, Radu Poklitaru put on a show of the same name. It is the troupe’s new sponsor Liudmyla Rusalina who...

Recently the Mykola Lysenko Kharkiv Opera and Ballet theater hosted the world premiere of a new ballet by contemporary Ukrainian composer Oleksandr Shymko. The ballet is The Snow Queen, after a tale by Hans Christian Andersen. The libretto and choreography were created by Alla Rubina, choreographer...

Opera diva Yevhenia Miroshnychenko’s concert gown and shoes, a key from maestro Petro Tchaikovsky’s grand piano, Illia Slatin’s conductor’s baton, personal belongings of the outstanding Ukrainian composer Yakiv Stepovy – all these and many other out of 600 items, which...

Today the name of Nikolay Grishko is known in many countries of the world. He used to work as a diplomat (in the 1970s he served at the USSR embassy in Laos) and a teacher in the Moscow-based Plekhanov Institute of National Economy and the Institute of Professional Skills Improvement for the...

The production was conducted by Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko, great-great-grandson of the founder of Ukrainian classical music, Merited Worker of Arts of Ukraine, artistic director and conductor of the Academic Variety-Symphonic Orchestra of Ukraine. His famous ancestor did not hear his most...

The international festival of classical music “Kharkiv Assemblies” has celebrated its 20th anniversary. It will be reminded that the music event that took place in Kharkiv in September 1991 started the traditional festival “Kharkiv Assemblies,” currently well known abroad...

Theater festivals have become very rare in Ukraine. The capital has been living without a big theater forum for two years. The oblast centers, like Lviv, Odesa, and Kharkiv, are only partially recompensing the gap. Only Yalta gathers representatives from the whole post-Soviet space. The Fourth...

Both masters of choreography have left significant marks on the art of former-USSR, and Ukraine in particular. Critics named Konstantin Sergeev the lyric voice of ballet, and Vakhtang Chabukiani – the heroic one. We should remind The Day’s readers that Sergeev brought his variants of classical...