Tetyana Polishchuk

The heart of this great choreographer stopped beating eight years ago. Numerous ballet lovers still remember the master, and his creative work is being continued by his students and followers. Shekera’s stagings are always sold out. The four-day Shekera festival recently held in the National Opera...

This theatrical forum is called “Puppet Rendezvous in Chernihiv”, and this year it will mark its fifth anniversary. The idea to hold a festival in this ancient city that would acquaint children and adults with the best Ukrainian groups belongs to the managers of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Chernihiv...

On April 3 the Maidan (Independence Square) in Kyiv will host a fairy-tale show called “The Spectacle of Fire” by a Toulouse-based French rock group, which opens this year’s “French Spring 2005” festival in Ukraine. The organizers of the festival promise a number of interesting events: exhibits,...

The celebrated opera star will give only one concert at the Ukraine Palace in Kyiv, and music lovers are eagerly anticipating the event, with tickets being ordered from all regions. Mrs. Caballe will produce her program and will have two partners onstage, Nikolai Baskov (Russia) and Volodymyr Hry...

A contest for the best composition commemorating Ivan Karabyts was held at the Gliere College of Music in Kyiv, as part of the Shevchenko March Festival in Kyiv. For over thirty years of creative life, Ivan Karabyts wrote a large number of instrumental pieces. Some, recalling his name, will...

Old productions are falling in decay, their titles disappearing from billboards, and few new ones appear. Contemporary compositions could put on record as rarities. A number of scores are shelved for years or collecting dust in the authors’ home archives. Vasyl TURKEVYCH, literary director of the...

Literary and music soirees have become another good tradition cultivated by the Russian Embassy in Kyiv, highlighting the anniversaries of prominent cultural figures, with invitations extended to diplomats, businesspeople, politicians, scientists, scholars, and men of the arts. This time the...

Kyiv opera singers and ballet dancers touring Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, and France present their premieres and major current year repertory. The Ukrainian National Opera’s ballet troupe was the first to conquer German theatergoers. Local critics praised its professionalism after the Ballet...

December 12, the National Opera of Ukraine hosted a gala concert starring US singer Jessye Norman, Russia’s National Philharmonic conducted by Vladimir Spivakov, and the Kyiv Opera Choir. Compositions by Bizet, Saint- Saens, Ravel, and Gershwin were performed, each virtuoso rendition adding to...

On December 3 the National Opera of Ukraine hosted a soiree commemorating the famous Ukrainian composers, brothers Heorhy and Platon Maiboroda. Each has left a sizable creative heritage in the form of compositions that glorify Ukrainian culture. Heorhy Maiboroda specialized in academic music...