[000:00:00;00] the gates are all your place, they are our places of strength, because i grew up on the corner of honchar and velika zhytomyrska, i was born and grew up there, of course , then we had to move, but these are also my native places, i still feel so special we recently returned to kyiv recently, on the stage of the national opera, you performed the title role in the opera the cause of flora of atosca. before that, in december, you sang alongside giuseppe verdi. i understand that these were your first appearances on the stage of your native theater after this forced long break. what are your the sensations were like your work is different from what it was until now . well, of course they are different, but god had mercy in the sense that on this particular day

there was no air pollution during the duration of the performance, that is, it was not interrupted. just for example, if my first performance , which was supposed to take place on december 16, seems to have just happened, there was some kind of missile attack and it was brought by minibuses, and on the 22nd, this performance took place even after that, and all the tickets were valid, i.e. people who bought on the 16th came on the 22nd, we already said that you were lucky that there were no air alarms during your performances, unlike your colleague tamara kalinka, who on october 29 sang the part of violet in the traviata. it was the premiere and then because the air alarm was not sounded for seven minutes. and how then they joked in the mass media on social networks that for the first time in the 170-year history of giuseppe verdi's opera

, violetta did not die, only the belly of the bell was left, and that was it. the air alarm will be a long air alarm during the premiere of the traviata of the national opera of ukraine, you talked about whether these air alarms are accepted during the performances , is it easy for them to return to the stage afterwards and finish singing? this well, this creative state, this drive, you know and when it’s already like that an hour passes there, or one and a half or two, even then, it’s already very difficult

to turn it on again in yourself, this feeling when plus voice plus voice well, that’s it if sung it is normal if a person is healthy, well, everything is normal in our genre, she is not sick, then if it is a professional person, she will work normally well, in terms of air alarms, yes , well, it is difficult, again, well, you know, when i was abroad, that's what happened to me too i am still sure that these people who, as they say, work under the bombardment are real heroes, real heroes with a capital letter. now, for example , i don't think so about myself. well, i am a hero there , but about my colleagues, then there was even more shelling, they were so terrible then when it flew there near the red building of the university and on the playground and it was not far from our theater and all this was just terrible. thank you for continuing

to serve even in such conditions. all these works because well, if we are talking about the destruction of the ukrainian nation, well, we do not have the moral right to promote the culture of a terrorist state that invaded our ukraine and destroys us ukrainians. that is, this is my subjective opinion of an identical position mykola dzidzyura, a colleague in the theater, and the chief conductor of the national opera and national philharmonic, instead, for example, the ballerina of the national perinatal festival, this is how they expressed themselves about this, considering this step to be ill-considered and a tragedy for ukrainian ballet, and the conductor oksana lyniv stated that musical masterpieces are considered world heritage and are not subject to a political

boycott, so that you can answer them, i do not understand these people who say that there is some kind of compromise, that is, my opinion is this she's here already, well, it won't work here, you know, somewhere in the middle, here or there, or so, black or white, here, i don't think there is such a concept, not everything is so unambiguous, yes, but you see that europe is not ready, now she ate , she said, she wanted to talk about europe let's talk about laskava, too, well, well, in principle, the theater was laskala milan, the theater has a huge history and a unique italian musical culture , on the other hand, on december 7, they opened the theater season of the opera by the russian composer musorsk pryzvodunu, so

the general manager laskala dominik meyer then he said that this is how the theater wants to emphasize the separation of russian culture from russian politics, how did you perceive it, how do you comment on it oh well, you know well, what can i say simply, i have been abroad all these months and i know it from the inside how people behave in which everything is calm nothing is flying over them quietly. thank god, everything is peaceful. besides, they are completely calm. they don’t share it all. unfortunately, we have it all. you see, it is very acute here . our compatriots are dying. at this moment, i say that well, what are we going to prove to those people who lost their loved ones about rachmaninoff or tchaikovsky, even though it is a world classic , of course, it is brilliant music.

are absolutely ready for this and probably won't be ready, as they say, you shouldn't ask for illusions on this account dominik mayer i know him personally , he sang a lot of different productions , he was also part of the viennese resistance in his time and she also sang in several productions there, you know that's what they say, fed up with europe, now i was also in the homeland of giuseppe verdi, this is the city of parma. that's how there was such an incident where we were invited to a closed club giuseppe , nowhere do they, under uh, candelabras, candles, this is how the choir sings with nabulko, this famous then they sit down for dinner there and one of these members of the club says to me why is this your president he won't give up those territories , let's let him give it up and there will be peace , we will reign

principles well, everything looks like this. unfortunately, in europe, especially there, well, no , what can i say, this is such a case from my personal , well, it is very interesting, the creativity of life there, according to your principles, well, they answered yes, they answered at the beginning full-scale secondary in the first months, there was such a trend when putin 's performers or those who support russian aggression against ukraine were dismissed from european world theaters, and at the metropolitan opera , such a fate befell ana netrebko, and instead of her , you were invited and in principle of such situations there was a lot in the beginning, according to your observations, does this trend continue or is it not necessary that the matsuyevs feel better in the world and in europe in particular

, uh, what do you say ? just like the united states, it is a superpower country that can afford to film such a singer as a non-slut who, after all, a name is a name, she gathers halls and let's not push this idea away from this in any way. well, that's it . she is a typical representative of this the regime of putin's regime, which has been in place for more than 20 years and so on such really typical representatives, this valery georgiev in the mariinsky theater back in my time, i also went there until the 14th year . so i am invited to things until now , don't consider it such a paradox, but also the bolshoi theater in moscow and what you influence well, i'm just silent, i don't answer anything, it's all because of the managers, artistic, well, that's how it is. it's happening until now, it's so strangely

paradoxical, well, i just want to say that these key such, uh, typical representatives , just then they were removed, especially in subway honey for himself this position was taken by all of us we shoot well, but not everything in europe is as you say, clearly for them in europe it turned out that there is no need to worry about them so much and we need to worry about ourselves for our people for our art in terms of having some e-e invitations and contracts where if we could represent our ukraine in a dignified way. this is how i look at it. do we have to offer something in return? well, for example. yes, in the same laskala, and in the ballet season, they also offered the nutcracker and swan lake and

prokofiev's romeo and juliet, for example. the ukrainians came out, protested, disagreed with it, and do we have anything to offer instead of tchaikovsky, prokofiev, rachmaninov, to the european stages, to the european stage , yes, this is such a good question, a good question . we have the beautiful natalka poltavka and taras bulba, and here we go again there will be yaroslav the wise, we have a new production, what can we offer in such and such scenes in the world, well, again , we can offer something, the same ones of ours, i say, and taras bulba and the same yaroslav can do something, it is another matter how much it is for them it will be interesting because if tchaikovsky or rachmaninov is the same oleg , the same thing that she filmed again, that they staged it all on european stages. everything has been invested for many decades, you know, to promote this

russian classic and that it has already started to be staged on world stages that's how it is, in principle, ukraine now and all of ukrainian is now in trend, yes, it is popular , what should we do to promote the best that we have? well, in my opinion, we need to make efforts at the highest level. i'm just shouting because i know the situation from the inside abroad, how do the same embassies treat it, for example, when russian representatives go on stage, it 's generally covered a lot, in general, a lot of press , many people, as they say around them , know these people both at home and abroad. let's put it this way: you ukrainians come there, well, when ukrainians come. well, there are some people there who are already very interested, they know theatergoers and so on , just like here, but still, i think

that it is not so bad, after all attention is paid to this in our country, including to key representatives of sports or art who represent the country at the highest level, bearing in mind that we need even more support from the state for coverage and funding. well, mass media is a very important aspect in my opinion and it will never be much. i want to tell you that we do what we think is necessary and what is required of us . i have a lot of concerts in these months. while abroad, they sang in support of ukraine for charities, and where a lot of ukrainian music was played, in particular, in particular, the same peter help , i already talked about it again, he is the director of the new york subway operator. he

invited me to take part in such a project as and the ukrainian freedom orchestra recruited musicians from ukraine, from different cities, including lviv, kharkiv, kyiv, and other cities of ukraine and ukrainians who are and live abroad, our musicians of the highest quality, and conducted with this project, his wife, the wife of peter gelba, er, kirilin wilson, that's what it was like, the subway projects and uh, the warsaw national operation, if you could say it, collaboration , that's how we traveled to a lot of countries. this is great britain, this is france and germany, and again it was the united states and scotland, ireland and poland. it lasted for three weeks. by the way, i performed beethoven there, and there was also a pianist who performed a lot of

different works, mainly chopin. and just as the orchestra performed new year’s music, this is the perception of the western public of ukraine and ukrainians before the full-scale invasion and now are very different, and where did you feel the most support from the public ? well, it's no secret that many people, not only i , feel the greatest support. it's the baltic countries - it's poland . of course, it's great britain. again, it's the united states . the public, you know, is such a demanding music public abroad, precisely in europe, because they have the opportunity to go to the best halls, that is, to listen and compare, and so on. and they look not so much at what it's according to a national sign, as they say, there or something. and just how professional it is, how much it fits the soul, as they say, and

that's why it was perceived so well, and it happened to be the royal albert hall in london , great britain. it happened to be concert number two, because everything started in warsaw and ended in washington, and this was all a big tour, and in various other countries, it was very difficult for everyone , but it was, as it were, according to the call of the heart and it was very interesting creatively. so, i say the audience when we saw already when we went out there to bow to the audience, we went out with anna fedorova, who was a pianist, the two of us went out with ukrainian flags after each concert of these concerts. here, the audience, it has already become just such a trend, and for you in particular , a lot of people took an example from you when you went to the subway, it's time to take a bow wrapped in ukrainian yes and also the biggest flag that the director gave

me yes, it was phenomenal and it was just my personal idea, so i just asked for permission because this is such an unprecedented case to go on such a stage with well they you know, they still try not to mix politics with art well, but this is not the case, this is not the case, if he invited me instead of anna, it is still quite logical to go out in the flag , so it is interesting that serhiy kyslits was - it is our a representative at the united nations, there were several of them at these performances. so there was a live broadcast to all of europe from america. well, this is the production of franco zafirelli, which is famous there , where

the costumes are very beautiful . which we do a lot indeed, these and this ukrainian songs. of course, in concerts like that, there is support for ukraine , support for ukraine. so recently, again, with the presidential orchestra. we are just in berlin with the support. to berlin, so there is a lot of support and in general, these eyes and these hearts and these you know this feedback, you always feel it is very inspiring and here hope and hope, after all, inspires us for the best, that everything will be fine

everything will be fine in the end, i wanted to ask you what helps you to hold on, air alarms , turning off the lights, rocket attacks, what supports you, well, since i myself am a musician, well , if i am a singer, i listen to a lot of different music, diverse me by the way, you know this as meditation me tunes a little to a different mood and music also different, different planned, because by the way, i love this kind of 50s of the last century, like frank son 3 or ele-figeral but because barbra streisam, that's all mine, listen to the music like i read a lot of music and i like this one, there are some family sagas, you know this kind of plan, this is how i get distracted, i just get distracted well, it is very important when i know that

everything is fine with my relatives. there is work, of course, it distracts me because i have to reincarnate into another character, and for a while it also helps me not to despair and find the strength to continue living and working. thank you, ma'am lyudmilo for that glorify ukraine, support ukraine, attack ukraine on all the world's european platforms, and god let it all end as soon as possible ukraine won and we breathed a sigh of relief glory to ukraine glory to the heroes thank you very much for the invitation, you were in donbas for 10 months, this is the best job in the world, you kill muscovites and you have a state pay the money and stress that we are losing friends, acquaintances, and just the fashion of beautiful people

, those people who are motivated and consciously went to fight at the front, they well, in fact, knights are not a punishment but pride or you protect the country everyone who fired at least one projectile in ukraine has village prisons, evil must be punished after the victory, it will be the end of the world like after the second world war, and ukraine will directly set the trends, we are doomed to success in any case hello everyone today we are talking with andriy at the social i am a bukin volunteer who is currently fighting in donbas as part of one of the battalions of the national guard . hello hello, i am glad to see you alive and well and in sumy, the first thing i want to ask you is how did you get to such a life

a civilian who did not serve a term of service, who did not have a military department and apparently had problems with his eyesight, ended up in the war in general, everything is very simple. it's just that in the 15th year i was a volunteer and i went to the military, it was called the kulchytskyi battalion. and this ear and ear ob' unity and actually my service ended in the 16th year, i was demobilized and entered civilian life, and with the aim that when the great war begins, i will actually go to the welfare state again or wherever you will be when the great war began, i am an obedient citizen during i had arrived in my military unit. well, that’s right. that’s how i ended up at the front. you arrived directly in the battalion there in kyiv . that’s right. i didn’t have a military ticket. i called, er, kombat himself and said, er, andrei

, i have such a situation, if i didn’t have one a military ticket, you will take me out with the best man and they say, well , of course, where do we live ? kyiv e subdivision ah, we will end up in kyiv. actually, we performed the tasks in the first series around kyiv, we were there under kazarovich in the fiercest. well, we performed the tasks there, and now , plus-minus, what is the plus-minus, in which area are you now fighting after the e- e mask, the leftists rolled back in march, we had a reformatting of the battalion, we added units, and since april we were in donbas, and we were in donbas for ten months, and they brought us here now, in the

second half of january, what do you like most in your current work and at least it's the best job in the world and it kills you when the state pays you money and they would have told me there hmm 15 years ago that this would happen, i would never have believed that the most stressful thing is that we are losing friends, acquaintances, and just there are good people, and unfortunately all the losses are there. they happen almost every day, but really those people who are motivated and want to fight, unfortunately, they are dying, and this autumn is a pity for my work . i guess i now know

that it is on vacation. you are now in sumy and what is happening with the battalion, for certain reasons, the battalion was taken out of the combat zones and now the process of reformatting is taking place in the national guard at a high level, strategic decisions were made to create six battalions of the national guard. now we are in the process of transitioning to one of the battalions of the offensive guard. i know a lot of such stories when motivated people want to fight to defend ukraine, but when they come to the military commissariat, they are refused because they some kind of military specialty there is not the same, and in general, they don’t approach it like they do now with this offensive guard, or do they take motivated people there, but who do not have, for example , certain military specialties, the very concept of building the offensive guard is

really very relevant today . why, because a lot people who ended up in the structures or various brigades of the national guard and who are motivated and ready to go to the front, they do not have access to the front, but the person actually wants to fight and does not have such an opportunity now and the fact that a strategy has been adopted to create six battalions, namely the national guard, which will consist of motivated people who want to go to war. they come to their military commissars and the military commissars say, for example, we don’t mobilize in the military unit of the national guard, but we don’t really mobilize, a person

comes with a specific attitude they are ready to take him, and this is extremely difficult for us. there was a case where we mobilized a guy from sumy for six months in our unit , and we need this particular person, who does he have in a narrow specialization, precisely in a highly specialized unit, and we spent 6 months for in order to overcome the bureaucratic processes that are currently taking place in the offensive guard and they have er certain er certain tasks to recruit motivated people not only from the mobilized civilian population who cannot find themselves in the army, according to this the algorithms they came up with there through tsnap or directly through the brigade are still an extremely badass mechanism and i hope that it will be implemented a-ah well in life and that there will be no obstacles

, we will simply pass by the power of lanka a-ah military officials in the form of there the military commissariat of deputies or employees of military commissariats who recruited there at a specific time or there or somewhere else, that is, a person who is motivated and wants to fight. she will simply come to a given brigade, you look for the unit in which she wants to serve and she is already here. well, directly automatically prepares documents. look, i constantly see uh in civilian life when some man is cut off or there an official does something , especially women very often write that he should be sent to bakhmut, how do you feel about it if the tin is actually

that for the majority of ukrainians, the war is at the front, and fighting at the front is some kind of punishment . so you committed some crime and you are here, you are just a punishment to be sent to the front. but really, it is not like that. fight for this country it is actually an honor and those people who motivated and consciously went to fight at the front, they are actually knights a and these are ignorant, they are not the people who were pumped up somewhere and were sent there to fight back punishment and this is a wrong position eh this is wrong formed messages in society itself this is not a punishment. but pride or you are defending the country, that's a big difference. of course, it's hard, it's dangerous, people die, people are maimed, but it's a conscious choice. and those people who have it get to the front, and the more

motivated people there are at the front, the faster will be our victory, we have a huge century-long history of struggle, it’s really very lively and starting from the brothers of the cold war and ending in the 1970s with the fighters for the freedom of ukraine. accordingly, we are the followers of these fighters who fought for this country. we are not slaves and here are similar messengers, they put us in well, on the same