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Opera In Ukraine
A national school of opera in Ukraine first emerged during the last third of the 19th century, and was based on the traditions of Theatre#Early modern and modern theatre in the West, European theatre and Ukrainian folk music. The first opera by a List of Ukrainian composers, Ukrainian composer was Maxim Berezovsky's ''Demofonte (Berezovsky), Demofont'', based on an Italian libretto, which premiered in 1773. The oldest opera in the Ukraine, Ukrainian musical repertoire, ''Zaporozhets za Dunayem, A Zaporozhye Cossack on the Danube'' by Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, was written in 1863. The composer Mykola Lysenko, the founder of Ukrainian opera, composed a number of works, including ''Natalka Poltavka (opera), Natalka Poltavka'', ''Taras Bulba (opera), Taras Bulba'', ''Nocturne (Lysenko), Nocturne'', and two operas for children, ''Koza-dereza'' and ''Mr Kotsky''. Ukrainian opera flourished and developed after the creation of the first professional opera houses in the 1920s, with Borys L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Zankovetska
Maria Kostiantynivna Adasovska (; 4 August 1854 – 4 October 1934), better known under her pseudonym Maria Zankovetska () was a Ukrainian theater actress. Some sources date her birth to 3 August 1860. In 1922, Zankovetska became the first recipient of the People's Artist of Ukraine (People's Artist of Ukrainian SSR). Biography Maria was born to an impoverished landowner and nobleman, Kostyantyn Adasovsky, and a Chernihiv city resident (Burgess (title), burgess) Maria Nefedova, in Zanky, Nizhyn County, Chernihiv Governorate (present-day Nizhyn Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine). She had many siblings. Maria was a graduate of the Chernihiv City Female Gymnasium. On May 11, 1875, Maria married Alexey Antonovich Khrestov (), commander of the 5th Artillery Brigade of the 3rd Artillery Company, and moved to Bessarabia, where she met Mykola Sadovskyi. Alexei was later transferred to Sveaborg (now Suomenlinna), and Maria began to study vocal music in nearby Helsinki, under the tutelag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nocturne (Lysenko)
''Nocturne'' is an opera in one act by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko written in 1912 and first performed in Kyiv soon after composer's death. Libreto to this opera wrote Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska (1868–1941), the daughter of Mikhailo Starytsky (1840–1904), who was Lysenko's friend. The same as in the previous opera ''Eneid''", Lysenko retreated from patriotic themes and folklore and chose a modern plot, in which a folk song and romantic song contrast to each other as representations of the past and modern. As a characteristic motive for the old world, the composer chose the salon song "Vremia Nevozvratnoe", which sings his mother Olga Eeremiyevna Lutsenkova. According to Sigrid Neef, "this opera geniusly reflects the position of the intellectual between the bourgeois revolution defeated and the socialist revolution". The opera entered the repertoire of Ukrainian theaters (for example, in 1927 it was first placed in Odessa), and in the 1930s it was broadcast o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitaliy Hubarenko
Vitaliy Serhiyovych Hubarenko (13 June 1934Grove incorrectly gives 1924 - all Ukrainian sources give 19345 April 2000) was a Ukrainian composer. Life and works Born in Kharkiv, he graduated from the Kharkiv Conservatory in 1960, where he had studied under Dmitri Klebanov. He was awarded the Ostrovsky Prize in 1967, and the Taras Shevchenko Prize in 1984. His first opera, ''Zahybel’ eskadry'' (‘The Destruction of the Squadron’) (1966) brought him to public attention. His compositions include operas (of which he wrote many including in 1980 the opera-ballet ''Viy'', ''Reborn May'' (1974), ''The Reluctant Matchmaker'' (1985), and ''Remember, My Brotherhood'', described as an opera-oratorio (1990–91)), film music, and ''Pys’ma lyubvi'' (Letters to love) (1972), a cycle of four monologues for soprano and chamber ensemble. Hubarenko died in Kyiv at age 65. Sources * Grove Music Online ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Song (opera)
Forest song is an opera by Vitaliy Kyreyko written in 1957 and first performed in Lviv in 1958. Libretto is based on the drama of the same name by Lesya Ukrainka Lesya Ukrainka (, ; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, ; – ) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and feminist activist. Among her best-known works are .... Opera consists of three acts. The music of the Forest Song is romantic and uses – in addition to deeply folk melodies and dances – as a model, mainly the romantic opera of the 19th century. Folk melody characterizes mainly human characters, fantastic creatures are characterized by a special timbre, chromatism and instrumental melody. According to Valentyna Antoniuk, "Forest Song" is "a classic pearl of the world's cultural heritage", and "even if he did not write a single note, this work itself would make the composer's name eternal." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitaly Kyreiko
Vitaliy Dmytrovych Kyreyko (23 December 192619 October 2016) was a Ukrainian composer. He graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory with a degree in composition from L. Revutsky (1944-1949), where he also completed his postgraduate studies (1952). His other accomplishments include: 1949-88 - Lecturer, Associate Professor (1961), Professor (1978) of the Kyiv Conservatory, and Candidate of Art History (1953).Kyreiko, Vitaliy. Ukrainian music encyclopedia. Т. 2: – К Kyiv 2008. P. 398-399. Selected works Operas: *''The Forest Song'', an adaptation of the play by Lesia Ukrainka (1957), *''On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs'', an adaptation of the novelette by Olha Kobylianska (1966), *''Marko in Hell'' (1966) *''The Boyar Woman'' (2003) Ballets: *''Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'', an adaptation of the novella by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky (; 17 September 1864 – 25 April 1913) was a Ukrainian author whose writings described typical Ukr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khrushchev Thaw
The Khrushchev Thaw (, or simply ''ottepel'')William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, London: Free Press, 2004 is the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s when Political repression in the Soviet Union, repression and Censorship in the Soviet Union, censorship in the Soviet Union were relaxed due to Nikita Khrushchev's policies of de-Stalinization and peaceful coexistence with other nations. The term was coined after Ilya Ehrenburg's 1954 novel ''The Thaw (Ehrenburg novel), The Thaw ''("Оттепель"), sensational for its time. The Thaw became possible after the Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, First Secretary Khrushchev denounced former General Secretary Stalin in the On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, "Secret Speech" at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 20th Congress of the Communist Party, then ousted the Stalinism, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuliy Meitus
Yuliy Serhiyovych Meitus (; 28 January 1903, Yelysavethrad – 2 April 1997, Kyiv), was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer, considered the founder of the Ukrainian Soviet opera. His early style was modernistic, later he used more traditional neo-Romantic idioms. Meitus was born to a Jewish family. In 1919 he graduated from the School of Music in piano from Heinrich Neuhaus, and from the Kharkiv Institute of Music and Drama in the composition class of C. Bogatyrenko in 1931. During World War II he was evacuated to the Turkmen SSR. Meitus made his debut in film in 1932. He is famous for his 18 operas, a number of orchestral works and about 300 songs on Ukrainian and Russian classical poems, among them ''Stolen Happiness,'' the epic ''Yaroslav the Wise,'' ''Daughter of the Wind,'' ''Leila and Majnun'', '' The Young Guard'' and ''Abakan.'' He was buried in the Baikove Cemetery. Awards and honors * Honored Art Worker of the Turkmen SSR (1944) * Honored Art Worker of the Ukraini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Young Guard (opera)
''The Young Guard'' () is an opera in four acts and seven scenes by the Ukrainian composer Yuliy Meitus, with a libretto by Andriy Malyshko. The opera deals with the fate of the youth resistance group The Young Guard in Krasnodon, Ukraine, during the Second World War. The libretto was based on the novel of the same name by the Russian author Alexander Fadeyev. The original version of the opera premiered in Kyiv in 1947, and a reworked version was performed for the first time in Stalin (now Donetsk, Ukraine) in 1950. Origin and history Immediately after the Second World War, there was a demand in the Soviet Union for operas about the war that celebrated its heroism in the conflict against Nazi Germany. In Ukraine, the first works of this type were ''The Honour of Herman Zhukovsky'', ''The Only Life of Dmytr Klebanov'' and ''Oscar Sandler'', which are considered by musicologists to be artistic failures. Yuliy Meitus chose one of the most popular books of post-war Soviet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dissolution Of The Soviet Union
The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Declaration No. 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, formally establishing the dissolution of the Soviet Union as a state and subject of international law. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government and General Secretary (also President) Mikhail Gorbachev's effort to reform the Soviet political and economic system in an attempt to stop a period of political stalemate and economic backslide. The Soviet Union had experienced internal stagnation and ethnic separatism. Although highly centralized until its final years, the country was made up of 15 top-level republics that served as the homelands for different ethnicities. By late 1991, amid a catastrophic political crisis, with several republics al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden Ring (opera)
''The Golden Ring'' (), also called ''Zachar Berkut'', is an opera in four acts and nine scenes by the Ukrainian composer Borys Lyatoshynsky. The libretto was written by the poet , and was based on ''Zachar Berkut'', a short story by the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko. The work was premiered in Odessa on 26 March 1930. Written in 1929, it was the earliest music-drama in Ukrainian. References Sources * Further reading * * External links Myroslava’s aria– score and partsfrom Lviv National Opera The Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet () or Lviv Opera (, ) is an opera house located in Lviv, Ukraine's largest western city and one of its cultural centres. Originally built on former marshland of the sub ... 1930 operas Operas Ukrainian-language operas Compositions by Borys Lyatoshynsky {{Opera-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borys Lyatoshynsky
Borys Mykolaiovych Lyatoshynsky, also known as Boris Nikolayevich Lyatoshinsky, (3 January 189515 April 1968) was a List of Ukrainian composers, Ukrainian composer, conductor, and teacher. A leading member of the new generation of 20th century Ukrainian composers, he was awarded a number of accolades, including the honorary title of People's Artist of Ukraine, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and two USSR State Prize, Stalin Prizes. He received his primary education at home, where Polish literature and history was held in high esteem. After completing school in 1913, he entered the Faculty of Law at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv University, and as a graduate was employed to teach music at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music, Kyiv Conservatory. During the 1910s, Lyatoshynsky wrote 31 works of various musical genres. During the 1930s he travelled to Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, Tajikistan to study folk music and compose a ballet ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
