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A startlingly of-the-moment work about Russia’s abduction of children during the war in Ukraine, co-commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, had its premiere in Warsaw last week.
News Ukraine » Kherson » Culture: Bring These Children Home: Barbara Wysocka Talks About ‘Mothers of Kherson’
In the opera ‘Mothers of Kherson’, music becomes the voice of mothers heroically fighting to get back their stolen children. We talk to the play’s director, Barbara Wysocka, about art in the shadow of ...
News Ukraine » Kherson » Culture: Russia has looted thousands of Ukrainian cultural objects in the war. Finding them is a challenge
KYIV, Ukraine — When Alina Dotsenko returned to her museum after Ukrainian forces retook the southern city of Kherson from Russian forces in late 2022, she found thousands of artworks had vanished. “I ...
News Ukraine » Kherson » Culture: Cultural initiatives bringing Ukraine to American audiences
In the 1990s, Ukraine was often viewed through a Russian lens. But after nearly five years of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainian culture is increasingly being recognized in the United States on ...
News Ukraine » Kherson » Culture: New opera brings stories of Ukraine’s war separated children to the stage
At the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, American playwright George Brant began writing an opera about Ukrainian mothers risking journeys into Russia ...
News Ukraine » Kherson » Culture: An Opera Ripped From the Headlines of the War in Ukraine
Operas don’t usually reflect current events. But “The Mothers of Kherson,” a product of artistic advocacy by the Met Opera, blends news and myth.
News Ukraine » Kherson » Culture: It Begins with a Lullaby: Maxim Kolomiiets Talks ‘Mothers of Kherson’
‘Mothers of Kherson’, a Ukrainian opera by Maxim Kolomiiets with a libretto by George Brant, will premiere in Warsaw in mid-October. The piece, originally conceived for an American stage, will ...
News Ukraine » Kherson » Culture: Ukraine: Russians Pillage Kherson Cultural Institutions, Says HRW
Russian military forces and civilians operating under their orders pillaged thousands of valuable artifacts and artworks from two museums, a cathedral, and a national archive in Kherson, before ...
News Ukraine » Kherson » Culture: Explainer-Oleshky: the occupied Ukrainian town for which Melania Trump helped broker a ceasefire
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a localised ceasefire around the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine, an arrangement that will enable aid deliveries and allow evacuations from a ...
News Ukraine » Kherson » Culture: Russia is trying to indoctrinate Ukrainian children in Moscow's ways
When Russia's forces captured their city in 2022, these Ukrainians were trapped. While they managed to escape, they fear for those who remain under Moscow's rule.