Vasyl Turkevych

The audience will be brought back to the wonderful world of romance and loftiness presented by the perennial and unique art of ballet. Soon the performance Giselle, ou Les Wilisi, featuring students of the outstanding dancer, will take place. The main part will be played by Olena Filipieva, who...

On December 24, the concert “Puccini’s Musical Images” will star Lidia Zabiliasta, Oleksandr Hurets, Pavlo and Petro Pryimak, Andrii Romanenko, Serhii Pashchuk, Mykhailo Kyryshev, and the chorus and orchestra of the National Opera of Ukraine. This concert will commemorate the 30th anniversary of...

Valerii Posvaliuk, the Ukrainian trumpeter and soloist of the Symphony Orchestra at the National Opera of Ukraine, and Meritorious Artist of Ukraine, is famous not only in his native country but all over the musical world. His name can be found in a number of non- Ukrainian encyclopedias and...

In August we would have marked Mykola Shopsha’s 60th birthday. It would have been a very special occasion highlighting one of Ukraine’s outstanding bass singers, a brilliant star and personality whose creative work has added substantially to our cultural space. Last but not least, he was a man with...

Oberammergau is one of the most beautiful spas in the Bavarian Alps with its crystal clear mountain air, unique architecture, fantastic quantity and variety of flowers, and the complete absence of any industry, which is unusual for Europe. A little over 3,000 people live here, but the number of...

Volodymyr Kozhukhar is a titular conductor whose name is familiar to each lover of musical art, especially opera, ballet, and symphonic music. He is one of the few Ukrainian conductors known in the cultural space of Europe, as well as in America, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, and Canada, where he...

The Kyivans gave seven performances of Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty on the stage of one of Italy’s most celebrated theaters — Teatro Carlo Felice, hallowed by several premieres of Verdi and Ponchielli operas and grand concerts by the brilliant Genoese virtuoso Niccolo Paganini. The news conference...

The Ukrainian National Opera’s traditional spring tour of Europe has been a conspicuous element in the cultural life of Germany, France, Switzerland, Denmark, and other countries. This year the highlight of the tour is Verdi’s Aida, which was performed 6 times with great success in various cities...