Mozart’s Requiem’s performance to mark the Holodomor’s anniversary

On November 23, the Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theater for Young People’s soloists, choir, and orchestra will perform Mozart’s Requiem to mark the 80th anniversary of the Holodomor. Let us recall that Requiem was the musical genius’s last work. It is a prime example of mournful lyrics, suffering, sorrow, and tragic pathos, full of genuine humanity and unfailing faith in the future. The Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet performed Requiem for the first time in 1996, as the last work of one of the theater’s founders, its first chief choirmaster Mykhailo Krechko (1925-96).

This time, the honor to perform Requiem will fall to the theater’s symphonic orchestra and chorus under the direction of conductor Oleksii Baklan and choirmaster Anzhela Maslennikova, respectively, and soloists Olha Fomichova (soprano), Myroslava Havryliuk (alto), Serhii Shapovalov (tenor) and Viacheslav Strelkov (bass).