#National Opera of Ukraine

[san-demetrio-corone]

Kostiantyn Dankevych's Lileya, National Opera of Ukraine (2023)

[dance-world]

Happy Birthday to Alexis Tutunnique - National Opera of Ukraine - photo by François Rousseau

[vintage-ukraine]

Performers of the National Opera, 1970s

[lovelyballetandmore]

 National Opera of Ukraine | Photo by Ksenia Orlova

[kafkasdiariies]

Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Odessa, Ukraine | Kristina SanTulip

[dlyarchitecture]

[sheltiechicago]

Lviv, Ukraine

Ballet dancers onstage before a performance of Giselle. The Lviv National Opera house resumed performances last month for both ballet and opera. The bomb shelter can only hold 300 people so tickets are limited in case a siren goes off during the performance

Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

[tomorrowusa]

Crimea has been under Russian occupation since 2014. The war with Ukraine began that year, it was expanded this year. 

So Olga Valeeva, recently crowned Mrs Queen Beauty - Crimea 2022, got into trouble with Russian overlords for singing a Ukrainian song.

A Crimean beauty queen has been fined 40,000 Russian rubles (around $680) by occupying Russian authorities for singing the patriotic Ukrainian song “Chervona Kalyna,” according to Russian state media and pro-Russian regional authorities.  

[ ... ]

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Crimea said in a video that it identified a video online in which “two girls sang a song that is the battle anthem of an extremist organization.”  

It said that the pair were detained on suspicion of “committing illegal actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as well as publicly displaying prohibited symbols.” 

“Chervona Kalyna” dates back to the 1870s. In Ukrainian the song is called «Ой у лузі червона калина».

Shortly after the Russians invaded, Andriy Khlyvnyuk (Андрій  Хливнюк) of the band BoomBox (Бумбокс) made this short video of himself singing part of it a cappella.

It’s gotten over 953,000 views on YouTube so far.

But the Andriy Khlyvnyuk vid has been remixed numerous times. The remixes with the original have easily gotten over 10 million views.

My favorite remix is by Foma Daemon – perhaps a fan of Prince Daemon Targaryen. After the remix we hear a child singing it for the last 20 seconds of the vid.

This might be considered a remix. Singers from the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre gave a live performance of it in Lithuania to a large audience. The black and white pictures on the screen in back which are shown before the seven singers join in seem to be from Lithuania’s short struggle with the USSR in 1990 when the Baltic states regained independence.

Even if you don’t understand the lyrics, you’ll easily recognize the song after hearing it just a couple of times.

It’s a great tune – and cheers to Olga Valeeva for daring to sing it! 

[reportwire]

Ukraine isn’t just defending its territory, it’s defending its culture as well

Ukraine isn’t just defending its territory, it’s defending its culture as well

A crowd is gathering outside the historic Ukrainian National Opera House in the center of Kyiv on a sunny Saturday. Patrons are greeting each other with hugs. Some are clutching fresh flowers to present to dancers after the ballet, scheduled to begin mid-afternoon. Valeriia Podemok has come with friends to help support the arts even as rockets and missiles land on Ukrainian homes and…

[san-demetrio-corone]

Mykola Lysenko's Natalka Poltavka, National Opera of Ukraine (2023)

[dance-world]

Alexis Tutunnique - National Opera of Ukraine - photo by François Rousseau

[vintage-ukraine]

The National Opera of Ukraine, 1900s

[daphnedauphinoise]

Full Length Ballet Performances

Cinderella

Instituto Nacional De Las Bellas Artes 🩰 Russian National Ballet

Coppelia

Paris Opera Ballet 🩰 Bolshoi Ballet Theatre

Don Quixote

The National Ballet Theatre of Ukraine 🩰Teatro alla Scala di Milano Marrinsky Theatre

Giselle

Bolshoi Ballet Theatre 🩰 Polish National Ballet 🩰 The Royal Danish Ballet 🩰 National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Mari El

La Bayadère

National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Mari El.🩰 Bolshoi Ballet Theatre

La Fille Mal Gardée

Serbian National Ballet

La Sylphide

The Royal Danish Ballet

Marguerite & Armand

The Royal Ballet

Mayerling

Stainslavsky Ballet

Nutcracker

The New York City Ballet 🩰Marrinsky Theatre 🩰 National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Marie.El

Romeo and Juliet

Ural Opera Ballet🩰 Bolshoi Ballet Theatre

Swan Lake

Kirkov Ballet 🩰 St Petersburg Ballet Theatre 🩰 American Ballet Theatre 🩰 Bolshoi Ballet Theatre

The Sleeping Beauty

Staatsballett Berlin 🩰 National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Mari El 🩰 Marrinsky Theatre 🩰 l'Opéra Bastille 🩰Teatro alla Scala 🩰 Bolshoi Ballet Act 1 Bolshoi Ballet Act 2

The Rite of Spring (Le sacre du printemps)

Marrinsky Theatre

I was born in the correct generation because I loved those photos so much, I decided to look up the ballet so I could watch it and there it was ! I have added other full length performances as well and for most of the pieces I have added different ballet companies (if I could find) just because different ballet companies means different choreography ( not always but certain companies are reowned for their distinct style)

Enjoy!

xo Daphne

[livesunique]

Odessa National Academic Theater Of Opera And Ballet,

Odesa, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine

[theophan-o]

360th Anniversary of Bohun's Death

17.02.1664 Ivan Bohun was executed in the Polish military camp

Ivan Bohun (Іван Богун) was a real person, an authentic Ukrainian Cossack hero from the mid-17th century and one of the most important Cossack commanders during the uprising of Bohdan Chmielnicki (Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Богдан Хмельницький), which started in 1648 ('Ukrainian Independence War').

As such, he has many diverse appearances in the Ukrainian culture and in the Polish culture (in literature, folklore, visual arts, music, opera, theater, cinema, etc.). Perhaps, the most famous worldwide (or just Tumblr-wide) of them all is the novel "With Fire and Sword" ("Ogniem i mieczem") by the Polish writer, Henryk Sienkiewicz, from 1883/1884. H. Sienkiewicz changed Bohun's name to Jurko, but described some of his authentic deeds, i.a. the role, he played during the battle of Beresteczko, 1651. The novel itself, as a part of the well-known "Trylogia" (which occupies an important place in the Polish culture), has many adaptations in art, theater, radio and cinema. The most famous of them is the Polish film from 1999, directed by Jerzy Hoffman. So...

Bohun's appearance in that film is not everything, in fact, it is only the tip of the iceberg of Bohun's myth. There is much more to explore and admire.

More information about artworks presented in this post you can find here:

It is a fan&didactic account, existing only for the Cossack Heroes glory and promoting Ukrainian heritage worldwide. Copyright belongs to the Artists/Museums.

[unhonestlymirror]

„Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors"

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Arvydas Buinauskas designed outstanding scenography and light art for the premiere opera „Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", transporting the performers to the postmodern world and emphasising a philosophical reconsideration of man's place in nature.

Creators:

Chief conductor – Yurii Bervetskyi

Conductor – Iryna Stasyshyn

Chief choreographer – Artem Shoshyn (Kyiv)

Chief choreographer assistant – Tetiana Kuruohlu (Kyiv)

Choreographer assistants – Andrii Musoryn, Anastasiia Dobrovolska (Kyiv)

Chief choirmaster – Vadym Yatsenko

Set and lighting designer – Arvydas Buinauskas (Lithuania)

Chief lighting designer assistant – Oleksandr Mezentsev

Costume designer – Nataliia Mishchenko (Lutsk)

Chief costume designer assistant – Zhanna Maletska

Makeup artists - Yurii Kultchytskyi (Head of department), Lesia Halan, Maria Malanchyn, Andriana Kultchytska, Inessa Kultchytska, Olha Tchervinska.

Senior répétiteurs – Ihor Khramov, Tamara Levytska, Khrystyna Mordzyk

Accompanists – Svitlana Krupei, Alina Yanovska, Maksym Sasko

Stage managers – Oksana Holovanova, Andrii Bilous

***

2023, Lviv National Opera, Lviv, Ukraine.

📷 Victoria Kvitka