Just three months after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the Kiev opera house reopened, with a reduced workforce determined to keep going. Since then, night after night, the opera house ...

A special concert "Puccini's Muses," sponsored by the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute, was held at the Kiev Opera House. (ANSA) ...

How relevant is opera? In the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa, what has been dismissed as elitist elsewhere has emerged as a pillar of community strength and support.

The Kiev opera house was built in 1867, and by 1893 there was a company large enough to mount major ballets. Many of the earliest ballets included folk dancing and stories set in the Ukraine.

As you continue along the way, you will pass the Kiev opera house and eventually reach Shevchenko Park, and a transverse boulevard of the same name that leads to the railway station.

Acclaimed Ukrainian opera singer Vladislav Horay has been killed while on a volunteer mission to the Sumy region, where a frontline battle for territory continues.

This month at the Odesa Opera House, productions of Verdi’s Aida and Il Trovatore, and Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, were due to take place in the 19th-century venue. But instead of rehearsals, the opera ...

Kyiv opera house reopens after 3 months : Deceptive Cadence Ukraine's National Opera was built to celebrate Russian opera at the height of the imperial era. Performances were suspended after the ...

While war rages on in Ukraine, music and applause were heard for the first time since the start of the Russian invasion at the country’s national opera house.

ODESSA, Ukraine — The barricades blocking the path to the Odessa Opera and Ballet begin three blocks away. Two more walls like that further protect the entrance. Antitank hedgehogs — metal ...

Acclaimed Russian pianist Denis Matsuyev plans giving a concert in the olden Russian city of Vladimir Thursday, March 27, instead of a performance in the Kiev Opera House that was cancelled by the ...