Opera Bohdan Khmelnytsky-1 Act, the 2nd scene - Bogdan's Monologue - Stephan Piatnychko

Donetsk National Academic Opera & Ballet Theatre (UKRAINE)
The National Ukrainian Opera after by composer K.Dankevych - Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
The premiere took place on 24 and 25 December 2005 and was dedicated to the 410th anniversary of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the 100 - anniversary of the composer Konstantin Dankevych.

To realize this ambitious nationwide project was to attract the best creative forces in Ukraine - VASYL VASYLENKO (author of the new musical version of Opera, conductor - director), YEVHEN STANKOVYCH the composer (musical version of the finale of the opera), VASYL VOVKUN (stage director), TADEI and MICHAEL RYNZAK (artists - directors of the Lviv National Opera and Ballet), OKSANA ZINCHENKO (costume designer, Lviv), VIKTOR POKHYLENKO (choreographer - director, Kirovograd).

This performance has aroused great interest among the audience, culture and the arts, media and was featured in Kiev in Ukraine Unification Day January 22, 2006 in the hall of the National Opera of Ukraine. In the same year the opera was shown in Lviv.

1.Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the hetman of Ukraine, baritone - Stephan Piatnychko
2.Colonel Maxim Kryvonis, bass - Jurii Olexijchuk
3.Colonel Bohun, tenor - Vitalii Dudkin
4.Varvara, wife of Cossack Nyva, mezzo-soprano - Ludmyla Shemchuk
5.Solomija, mezzo-soprano - Tetiana Savvina
6.Tour, the old Cossack, bass - Maxym Ivashchuk
7.Helena, wife of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, soprano - Anna Usova
8.Lyzogub, the chief military clerk, tenor - Olexander Levchishyn
9.Kojuh,a Cossack, tenor - Petro Labatyi
10.Priest Havrylo, bass - Valerii Kurkchi
11.Сommander of Cossack camp, baryton - Ruslan Korjevych
12.Colonel Ganja, bass - Olexander Klimov
13.Shaitan, the old Cossack, baritone - Sergii Dubnyzky
14.Lubenko,the Cossack, tenor - Pavlo Naumenko
15.Ambassador of Poland, baritone - Viktor Korotich
16.The first fugitive, baritone - Marat Davydjuk
17.The second fugitive, baritone - Dmytro Koleushko
author of the new musical version of Opera, conductor - Vasyl Vasylenko
Orchestra and choir of the National Donetsk Opera House of Ukraine

The opera was an All-Ukrainian event, a grand theatrical spectacle, which shows the historical pattern of the past. And today is the best in Ukraine staging of historical opera , which makes the viewer a sense of patriotism and pride, regardless of its accommodation in the West or the East of Ukraine. Opera "Bogdan Khmelnitsky" has become a real event, which began the whole of Ukraine.
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