GOLDEN CROWN (Lyatoshynsky) World Opera Day 2022 OperaVision
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Golden Crown
- Composer: Lyatoshynsky Borys
- Libretto: Yakiv Mamontiv Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: various
- Recorded: 2022
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: see below
- Conductor: various
- Orchestra: various
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: OperaVision
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Quote OperaVision:
“Set in the Ukraine’s Carpathian mountains in 13th century, Golden Crown is an epic love story of the love, loss, betrayal, class, stolen land and national pride – all of which conspire against the star-crossed villager Maxim Berkut and his beloved Myroslava, the daughter of a local nobleman.
Ukrainian composer Borys Lyatoshynsky wrote Golden Crown in 1929, when the policy of ‘korenizatsiya’ (going back to the roots) was allowed in the country. At this time, several operas were commissioned from Ukrainian composers and librettists based on Ukrainian history. In support of 21st century Ukraine, OperaVision presents an unprecedented international online co-production of this opera never before performed outside Ukraine. Released on 25 October 2022 to mark World Opera Day, this production is the fruit of a collaboration between seven cities: Helsinki, Lviv, London, Rome, San Francisco, Warsaw and Washington DC. Young artists from Finnish National Opera, Lviv National Opera, Royal College of Music, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, San Francisco Opera, and Polish National Opera each perform a scene from Golden Crown. The production is narrated by Ukrainian artists attending the Shenandoah University, near Washington DC, where Ella Marchment, who initiated and directs this production, is Director of Opera”
CAST
▪ Finnish National Opera
Myroslava
Minna-Leena Lahti
Maxim Berkut
Tuomas Miettola
Tugar Vovk
Arttu Kataja
Piano
Hans-Otto Ehrström
▪ Lviv National Opera
Zakhar Berkut
Taras Berezhanskyi
Chorus
Male Chorus of Lviv National Opera
Piano
Marianna Rusak
▪ Polish National Opera
Myroslava
Justyna Khil
Maxim Berkut
Adrian Domarecki
Tugar Vovk
Adrian Janus
Piano
Klara Janus
▪ San Fransisco Opera
Zakhar Berkut
Stefan Egerstrom
Piano
Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad
▪ Royal College of Music
Maxim Berkut
Michael Gibson
Tugar Vovk
Jamie Woollard
Piano
Paul McKenzie
▪ Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Myroslava
Agnieszka Jadwiga Grochala
Maxim Berkut
Rodrigo Ortiz
Zakhar Berkut
Arturo Espinosa
Piano
Elena Gurina
▪ Shenandoah University
Presenter
Ella Marchment
Narrators
Illia Kozlov
Marina Duane
Iryna Horodnycha