In honor to Solomiya Krushelnytska

КОНЦЕРТ ВІДМІНЕНО

Friday 10.01.2020 / 19:00

Концертний зал Людкевича

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The best blitz-event in the opera music segment!
The best fragments of the most loved and popular operas, previously performed by the stunning Solomiya, carefully selected and brilliantly performed all in one concert!

Solomiya Krushelnytska, a world known soprano singer, born in a small village Biliavyntsi in the Austria-Hungarian Galicia region (nowadays in Ukraine), studied and followed her professional path with a highly successful debut at the Lviv Opera in 1893. This performance in the role of Leonora in a production of Donizetti’s La favorita at the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet has brought her the life-changing advice and recommendations by Gemma Bellincioni; the advice to continue her studies in Milan, Italy under the tutelage of Fausta Crespi. A century later, the echo of this stunning debut and Solomiyas’ astonishing singing career has found its reflection in giving the theater the name of this prominent singer.
Crespi was the one who had suggested to switch from training as a mezzo-soprano to a lyric-dramatic soprano, which is characterized by a warm quality with a bright, full timbre that can be heard over an orchestra.
For many years to come, Solomiya would divide her time between Milan, Lviv and numerous tours and engagements, necessary to ensure sufficient funding for her ongoing studies in Italy. Naturally, the passion for learning along with the incredible talent has brought their logical dividends: Solomiya had performed in most famous venues all over the world, including La Scala, The Paris Grand Opera, the theatres in Naples, Warsaw, St.Petersburg, Rome, Cairo and Alexandria and many others.
In 1904, she famously became a savior of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. The opera had been booed by the audience at its premiere in Milan’s La Scala, but three months later in Brescia, a revised version of the work, with Krushelnytska singing the leading role, was a major success. Moreover, the artists and the composer were forced to return to the stage seven times! The grandeur of the occasion and the talent of Krushelnytska left a great impression on Puccini; the composer sent Solomiya his portrait with a signature “To the most beautiful and charming Butterfly” to acknowledge her outstanding performance.
Solomiya was incredibly hard-working. She was able to sing in four and five productions during a single week while being on tours; learn a part in a new opera in two days, and develop the character of a role in another three or four. The total number of parts in her repertoire was 63. In the history of music, Krushelnytska is known as an active promoter of the works of her contemporaries, and of Richard Wagner. For instance, Solomiya starred in Lohengrin production in Paris, Salome in Milan, conducted by Arturo Toscanini (along with many other parts she performed with Arturo).

After 1920, Solomiya changed her career path from opera singer to concert performer. Knowing eight languages, she included songs of many nations in her concert programs, but always remembered to promote Ukrainian folk songs and works by Ukrainian composers.
Despite the hardships the singer suffered during the Nazi and Soviet regimes, and not being able to give big stage performances during the last decades of her life due to the Iron Curtain, Solomiya Krushelnytska has remained a great figure, acknowleged and recognized in the world of opera music.
In Lviv, the theatre, the street and the museum named by and dedicated to Solomiya Krushelnytska reflect the respect and recognition of Lviv music lovers to one of the brightest opera stars of the world – the opera Diva with a Ukrainian heart.

  • Olesya Bubela, soprano
  • Maria Berezovska, mezzo soprano
  • Stepan Drobit, baritone
  • Roman Korentsvit, tenor
  • Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Myron Yusypovych, conductor
  • Project curator: Oleg Vecherov
  • Commentary: Dr. Lubov Kyianovska

Program:

  • Giuseppe Verdi. “La Forca del Destino” – Overture
  • Giuseppe Verdi. “Tacea la notte”, Leonora, “Il trovatore”
  • Giuseppe Verdi. “Invano Alvaro…”, Alvaro, Carlo, “La Forza del Destino”
  • Giuseppe Verdi. “La Traviata”, Preludio
  • Giuseppe Verdi. “Cortigiani, vil razza…”, Rigoletto
  • Giuseppe Verdi. “L’aborrita rivale a me sfuggia…”, Amneris, Radames, Aida
  • Giaccomo Puccini. “Madama Butterfly”, Preludio sinfonico
  • Giaccomo Puccini. “Un bel di vedremo…”, Cio-Cio-San, “Madama Butterfly”
  • Pietro Mascagni. “Voi lo sapete, o mamma”, Santuzza, “Cavalleria rusticana”
  • Richard Wagner. “Wie Todesahnung”, Wolfram, “Tannhauzer”
  • Richard Wagner. “Mein lieber Schwan”, Lohengrin, “Lohengrin”
  • Yuliy Meytus. “Stolen happiness”, Introduction
  • Yuliy Meytus. “I prayed, I bowed”, Hanna, “Stolen Happiness”
  • Mykola Lysenko. “What did you do!…”, Ostap, “Тарас Бульба
  • Mykola Lysenko. “Taras Bulba”, Overture

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