“The most charming Butterfly”. An exhibition dedicated to Solomiya Krushelnitsky will be held in Italy
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An exhibition about the legendary Ukrainian opera singer Solomiya Krushelnytska will be held in Italy. It will be held as part of one of the largest European opera festivals – the 69th Puccini Festival. Read UP.Kultura in Telegram The exhibition “Grand Tour: Solomiya. Ukraine – Italy” will be opened on July 28, before the premiere of the opera “Madame Butterfly” by Giacomo Puccini – a work that at one time received public recognition thanks to the performance of the Ukrainian Krushelnytska. The modular exhibition will tell festival guests about the life and creative path of Solomiya Krushelnytska: origin, education, triumphs on the best stages of the world, cooperation with outstanding composers. Ukrainian media artist Serhiy Petlyuk became the designer of the project. Krushelnytska in the opera “Madame Butterfly” In addition, visitors will be able to hear the authentic singing of a Ukrainian soprano: the exhibition will present more than a century old archive recordings of arias from the operas “Madame Butterfly” and “Valkyrie” by Richard Wagner. The city of Torre del Lago was not chosen as a place for the exposition dedicated to Krushelnytska by chance. It was here that Puccini himself lived, and the Ukrainian singer settled in the nearby town of Viareggio after getting married and ending her operatic career. Krushelnytska at Villa Puccini in Torre del Lago. From the collection of the S. Krushelnytska Memorial Museum of Music in Lviv. The composer and the singer were united by friendship and long-term cooperation: it was Krushelnytska who was one of the best interpreters of Puccini’s music and performed leading parts in his operas “Manon Lescaut”, “Boheme”, “Tosca”. Moreover, it was the Ukrainian woman who dared to perform the leading part of Chio-Chio-san in “Madame Butterfly” after the devastating failure of the premiere at Milan’s La Scala theater, returning Puccini to the public’s favor. Krushelnytska and the conductor Campanini with the participants of the second premiere of the opera “Madame Butterfly” The exhibition was supposed to be shown in Italy last year, in the year of Krushelnytska’s 150th anniversary, but it was not postponed due to the beginning of a full-scale war. “The exhibition was developed and dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Solomiya Krushelnytska and is a landmark for our museum… She is returning to Europe and the world in order to remind of herself and her glory!” – said Mykhailo Kobrin, director of the Solomia Krushelnytska Memorial Music Museum in Lviv. The exhibition “Grand Tour: Solomiya. Ukraine – Italy” will be available for a month, until the end of the festival on August 26. Read also: How Solomiya Krushelnytska saved the opera “Madame Butterfly” and the career of its author Giacomo Puccini
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