Conductor Lyniv advocated renaming the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Oksana Lyniv categorically does not support the fact that the National Academy of Music still bears his name.

The conductor of the Bologna Opera House and the American Metropolitan Opera, Oksana Lyniv, said that she has a negative attitude to the presence of Tchaikovsky’s name in the name of the National Music Academy of Ukraine.

She told about this in interview UP. Culture.

She noted that the state institution should display the names of prominent Ukrainian musical actors:

“Our entire conversation with you revolves around how difficult it is and what efforts are made to promote Ukrainian classical music abroad. And that is why I consider it very important that the country’s main musical educational institution bears the name of a Ukrainian composer. What – you have to think. But it is clear that the National Academy of Music should develop the Ukrainian artistic brand“.

Instead, she talked about the cancellation of the composer – only after the war began, Ukrainians began to actively oppose Tchaikovsky. Prior to that, the repertoires of Ukrainian theaters throughout the country were full of his works, such as “Swan Lake” and “The Nutcracker”.

The world is currently discussing the topic of the composer’s homosexuality, which has now fallen under the social issue of gender freedom and the legalization of same-sex marriages. The empire forbade publication of Tchaikovsky’s letters documenting his preferences.

“In Russia, during his lifetime, Tchaikovsky was criticized for the lack of nationalist views and pro-Russian musical ideas, for his Europeanness. Because Tchaikovsky was recognized in the world during his lifetime. He opened Carnegie Hall in New York, the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler popularized and appreciated his works“, Liniv added.

Ukrainian composers also considered it “their own”. This was the opinion of Lysenko in his letters to Ivan Franko and Stanislav Lyudkevich.

“Solomiya Krushelnytska sang the part of Tatyana in “Eugene Onegin”, as well as other Russian repertoire. Although she was aware of the political position of Ukraine in the Russian Empire“.