Olha Savytska

Danylo Lider believed that theatrical stage was a living creature. He used to smile enigmatically, and whenever he spoke of the “Greater and Lesser Worlds,” the wonder of “transformation” shone through reality.He worked as chief scenic designer at the National Ivan Franko...

The Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by the maestro successfully materialized the high meaning of music, giving pleasure, as it performed Rapsodie espagnole by Maurice Ravel, a Romanian rhapsody by George Enescu, a Hungarian rhapsody by Franz Liszt, a Hutsul rhapsody by Heorhii Maiboroda. In...

On September 12, in the Column Hall of the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine an open rehearsal of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine is scheduled (with Roman Kofman as chief conductor) together with the presentation of the documentary Roman Kofman...

On display are paintings and graphic works by artist Temo Svirely (1964-2014). He spent his childhood in the village of Svir in Western Georgia, and from that stems his sense of nature as a basis for joy. As his works entered exhibitions, he took the pseudonym Svirely (translated from Georgian as...

The book includes 60 literary portraits of the composers with whom the author has had personal or virtual contacts, through continents or centuries. Praise to the Employers! (Laurus Publishing House) is the eighth book published by the writer and conductor Roman Kofman. The author launched the new...

Gidon Kremer’s project “Dedication to Ukrainian people,” realized together with maestro Roman Kofman, was held at the National Philharmonic Society with the assistance of the Embassy of Latvia in Ukraine (it was dedicated to the 96th anniversary of proclamation of the independent...

If to recall the music projects realized by maestro Kofman in Ukraine recently: “Great Names,” “Ukrainian Avant-garde,” “Geniuses and Dilettantes,” “What is our life? A Game!”, “Northern Express Train,” “Creation of Prometheus,...

Today the events in the east of Ukraine arrest the attention of everyone, but for the residents who used to love and work in Donetsk and Luhansk the news is especially painful. The Day met with Andrii Romanchenko, a well-known Ukrainian set designer, former production artist of the Donetsk...

This May, Artistic Alliance at the Museum of Mikhail Bulgakov was devoted to building on the close relationship between ideas of poet and playwright William Shakespeare, artist and philosopher Kazimir Malevich, and thinker and set designer Danylo Lider.Once upon the time, four Kyiv artists (Tiberii...

In the high-mountain panorama of modern Ukrainian painting presented in the project “DIFFERENT – RIZNE,” Davyd Sharashydze’s summit attracts with its warmth of simple truths. After seeing his pictures at least once, we will recognize the manner of the artist and ask the...