A festival in memory of the outstanding opera singer Yevhenii Miroshnychenko is being launched in Ukraine.
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – July 6, 2021 – Ukraine Society and Culture
A gala concert will take place on July 10 in Kyiv at the National Philharmonic, which will open a series of musical events of the International Vocal Festival dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the artist, which was celebrated on June 12.
The first gala concert will feature Olga Bezmertna ( Austria), Oksana Verba ( Japan), Svitlana Kalinichenko ( Poland), Olga Nagornaya, Tatiana Ganina, Susanna Chakhoyan, Ilona Voloshchuk, Tamara Khodakova, Serhiy Kovnir, Yuri Kruglikov ( Germany). Accompaniment – National Honored Academic Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine conducted by Volodymyr Sirenko. Admission to the concert program is free.
In total, the festival will feature five concerts with the participation of prominent students Miroshnichenko: Ukrainian and foreign performers performing on the stages of Vienna, Bonn, Zurich, New York and other cities, folk and honored artists of Ukraine – soloists of national theaters, as well as famous singers – colleagues Miroshnichenko, teachers, and students of the departments of opera and chamber singing of the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music.
The festival will last for several months in Kyiv and Kharkiv and will end with a grand gala concert on October 24 on the stage of the National Opera of Ukraine.
“Yevhenia Miroshnychenko is a grand figure with great charisma,” Olena Nesmashna, a young festival director and project coordinator, told Ukraine. “Her name should be known to every Ukrainian not only in Ukraine but also abroad.”
Yevhenia Miroshnichenko is a singer with unique vocal skills, as a teacher she brought up more than 90 singers who perform on the world’s leading stages today. She studied at the Kyiv Conservatory, and after an internship at the La Scala Theater in Milan. For 40 years she was a soloist of the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theater. One of the initiators of the creation of a small opera house on the basis of the Lukyanov People’s House of the Small Opera House, where rarely performed classical opera masterpieces could be staged, experimental productions could be performed, and young musicians could develop their talent.
“There was no question of which opera you want to go to. It was a phenomenon when people bought a ticket in the name of Miroshnichenko. Yevheniya Semenivna was, in fact, the last diva of Ukrainian opera, ”says theater critic Oleh Verhelis.
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Source: Ukrgate