[000:00:00;00] they are not our enemies, protect your enemies a year ago i hugged you a year ago we were building our own future a year ago we thought about what we would be like in 20 years or 30 years ago we laid the foundation for a year a year ago we held hands we listened did we listen like at night a young man enlightens himself at the entrance, we listened to how the wind touches our hands a year ago, it's been a year, but with you we have a common dream, one for two, a dream of our joint victory, yours and

mine, and then again the warmth of hands, trams without locusts , lovers at the entrance after our victory after ours i defend ukraine's victories the blue sky, the morning silence of the fields, i protect the culture, tradition, the cossack land, i protect the borders of my country, i protect what is important , my mother, my wife, i protect my ukraine , my will, love, we are the ones who were free and independent

ukraine, i protect, i protect, i protect, i protect , i understand that this is war attracted. three men swam out and two swam further downstream. we watched a lot. there were very few tears . are they looking? they said that if she lied , they would return here with tanks. the occupiers began to look for wounded servicemen. the doctors simply took the wounded and those in hiding to their homes, the families to whom they turned, they did not refuse, they understood that the city does not seem heroes are not born to our generation, during the revolution and the war, the party of the free has already grown, they will not become slaves, death is better from monday

to friday 11:00 p.m. in marathon the only news is if we are talking about the destruction of the ukrainian nation well, we have no moral right to promote the culture of the terrorist state that invaded our ukraine and is destroying us ukrainians i congratulate you ms. lyudmila on the first public broadcasting channel thank you for visiting our cozy studio today. good afternoon. i would like to recall the times of a year ago. the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine occurred precisely at the time when you were abroad in naples, where you sang the aida, and in a few days as i read, you were supposed to fly home to kyiv only recently, you were able to come home, and before that you found a temporary shelter in warsaw, how did kyiv meet you , how did you see it when you arrived after

such a long forced break i missed home and had such a strange feeling when i arrived, it seems, well, it is very unusual for me not to be at home for so many months , i will not be home for almost 9-10 months, that is, i arrived in november, but since november there were several rocket attacks on kyiv , what did you feel? for example, when you heard an air raid for the first time. how did you perceive these rocket attacks, and i can point out that after all, those who are abroad are more worried than those who are here, people who know the situation from the inside, after all, and in a slightly different way they feel because when there we just read these news endlessly and uh well, we can't imagine what's the point because i

have the sejm here and my parents and i'm very worried , well, my daughter, she left, she's abroad now, but she she was leaving very well, while everyone was leaving at the end of february, the beginning of march, these trains with animals with everyone and they were confident, so they could not get on one train and get on another, well, it was very difficult and it is very stressful, but my children are already adults and that is for them it's stress - it's terrible. and how small children tolerate it. it's just terrible regarding missile attacks well, first of all, i live in the yard and here it is not so much , even this siren can be heard specifically in my apartment and probably still, hmm, a little bit of a person. well, not what one gets used to. immunity, or how can you say it, to competitiveness, some kind of uh, yes, apparently the psyche reacts so strangely

. we didn’t expect this for almost 9 months. you haven’t seen your loved ones. how did you experience it in relation to my son ? at the beginning, uh, he told me, mom, there would be a war . because i don't know how this young generation is and how do they calculate it, as they say, he left with his girlfriend , they left for poland about three weeks before the bombing yes, but then in april he returned to kyiv , we had to go to the military commissariat and we saw him in april in warsaw, this is my son and my daughter and i saw each other in july in the summer well, parents, parents, yes, i haven't seen my parents for a long time, well, such a strange feeling, a strange feeling, very strange and very similar, no, you understand, i read that usually my mother came to kyiv

when you went somewhere on tour for example for contracts. so she came to look after the cat. i have a persian cat like that. she really missed her relatives and her pet and her apartment . what do i call the places of strength? st. michael's cathedral and the landscape are our favorite. we often walk there. well, the opera house is of course my place of work. well, as you know, yaroslav ivanovich, the golden gate is all your place, it is our place , my next strength, because i grew up on the corner of honchar and velika zhytomyrskaya, i was born there. i grew up, of course, then i had to move, but my native places are also for me, so i feel so special , well, you recently returned to kyiv, recently on the stage of the national opera, you performed the title role in the opera puchinia flora atoska. and to the fact that in december e-

they sang giuseppe verdi on the side. i understand that these were your first appearances on the stage of your native theater after this forced long pause . is different, but god had mercy in the sense that on this particular day there was no air alarm during the duration of the performance , that is, it was not interrupted, this performance was played, that is, a to i have been played, but just for example, if literally my first performance that was supposed to take place 16 me it seems that there was just some kind of missile attack and it was brought first of all 22 and then this performance took place and everything the tickets were valid, that is, the people who bought on the 16th came 22 you said that

you were lucky that during your performances your work, there were no air alarms, unlike your friend tamara kalinka, who on october 29 sang the part of violet in the traviata. it was the premiere, and then due to an air alarm , they did not finish singing for seven minutes. the one-year history of giuseppe verdi's opera, violetta did not die , she remained alive, so alive, and it was, well, they didn't continue the support because they understood that

the air of alarm would be long. accepting these air anxieties during performances, is it easy for them to return to the stage afterwards and finish singing, it is not very easy to communicate, it is not very easy because a person adjusts and the morale is like that well , you know the creative state, this drive, and when it is like that, does an hour pass somewhere? one and a half or two, even then, it is already so very difficult to turn on this feeling in yourself when plus voice plus voice well, the voice is if it is sung , it is normal, if the person is healthy, well, in our genre, everything is normal, she is not sick, if it is a professional person, she is normal will work well, in terms of air alarms, yes, well, it’s difficult, again, well, you know, when i was abroad, i was also in this and until now, i am sure that these people who, as they say, work under bombing are real

heroes, real heroes with capital letters now, for example, i don't think so about myself. well, i'm a hero there, but about my colleagues , there was even more shelling then, they were so terrible when it flew there near the red building of the university and on the playground, and that's not far from of our theater and all this was simply a horror. thank you for continuing to serve even in such conditions. at the same time, the national opera has removed all performances by russian authors from the repertoire. you will not see any ballets for a long time. you will see yevgeny onegin's iolants. how do you personally feel about this step? i am still in favor of not performing all these works now because , well, if we are talking about the destruction of the ukrainian

nation, well, we have no moral right to promote the culture of the terrorist state that invaded our ukraine and destroys us ukrainians. that is, this is my subjective opinion. your colleague in the theater, mykola didyury, and the chief conductor of the national opera and the national philharmonic, instead, for example, directly the ballerina of the national perinatal church expressed her opinion that this step was ill-considered and a tragedy for ukrainian ballet , and the conductor oksana lyniv stated that musical masterpieces are considered world heritage and not are subject to a political boycott so that you can answer them, i don't understand these people who say that there is some kind of compromise

, that is, my opinion is like this. well, here it is . well, it won't work here. you know, somewhere in the middle, here or there. either it's black or white, here already. it seems to me that there is no such concept, not everything is so unequivocally yes, but you see that europe is not ready now, she was caressing it, i wanted to talk about europe and i will say about you too but here , well, in principle, the theater is kind, milan theater has a huge history and a unique italian musical culture, instead, on december 7, the theater season of the opera by the russian composer boris godunov opened, and the general manager was flattered by it. dominic meyer then said that the theater wanted to emphasize the separation of russian culture from russian politics. how did you perceive it, how would you comment on it? you know well, what can i just say, i ’ve been abroad all these months and i know it from the inside, how people behave in which everything is calm, quiet

does not fly over them. nothing, thank god, everything is peaceful, besides, they behave absolutely calmly, they they don't divide it all, unfortunately, we have it all. you see, it is very acute here, our compatriots are dying. and what, as i always say , if they ask about this moment, i say that well, what are we going to prove to those people who have lost their loved ones about something? to prove to them about rachmaninov or tchaikovsky, even though it is a world classic. of course, it is brilliant music . no one has denied that it is brilliant. well , but you see in europe, they are absolutely not ready for this, and probably will not be ready, as they say, you shouldn’t ask illusions on this account dominik meyer 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, as they say, fed up with europe, now i was also in the homeland of giuseppe verdi , this is the city of parma. and there was also such an incident where we were invited to the closed giuseppe verdi club, where they, under uh, candelabras , candles, they sing such a choir from nabuc, this famous one, then they sit down to dinner there and one of these club members says why is it that your president won't give up those territories, let's let him give it up and there will be peace, we will reign, i say. and why don't you all want to give all of yours or sardinia, it 's yours in principle. well, everything looks like this. unfortunately, in europe, especially there uh, well, no, what can i say, this is such a case from my personal, well, it’s very interesting, the creativity of life there, according to your principle, well, they answered

yes, they answered at the beginning, on a full scale , tuesday in the first months, there was such a trend when talking about putin’s performers or those who supports russian aggression against ukraine, she was fired from the theaters of the european world, and the same fate befell anna netrebko at the metropoliten opera, and you were invited instead, and in principle there were many such situations in the beginning, according to your observations, does this trend continue? are the conditional netrebkos - gengies of the matsuevs feeling better? in the world and in europe, in particular, what do you say here? yes , i agree with you that in the beginning it was like that, well, the subway opera, just like the united states, is a superpower country that can

allow yourself to film such a singer as netrebko, who, after all , is a name is a name, she gathers halls and let's not push this idea away. 20 years and so on, there are such truly typical representatives, this valery georgiev , in the mariinsky theater back in my time, i also went there until the 14th year. that we will influence, well, i'm just silent and nothing it doesn't answer 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 the subway, honey, he took such a position that

well, in europe, not everything is as you say, clearly for them in europe, it turned out that there is no need to worry about them so much. and contracts where we could adequately represent our ukraine. that's how i look at it. do we have to offer something in return ? well, here's an 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 protested against it, did not agree with it, and do we have anything to offer instead of tchaikovsky, prokofiev, rachmaninov , to european stages, european venues

, yes, this is such a good question, a good question . we have beautiful natalka poltavka and taras bulba and here 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 will be for them it's interesting because if tchaikovsky or rachmaninov was the same oleg, the same thing that she filmed again, so that they put it all on european stages. everything was very many decades invested, you know what to promote this russian classic and that it has already begun behave on the world stage. that's how ukraine is now and all of ukraine is in trend right now, so it's popular. what do we

need to 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 about it. that i know the situation from the inside abroad, how do the same embassies treat it, for example. when russian representatives appear on the stage, it is generally covered a lot, in general, there is a lot of press, a lot of people, as they say, are these people around them they know both at home and abroad. let's say that we ukrainians come there , well, when ukrainians come, well, there are some people there who are already very interested, they know the theater people there, and so on, just like here, well, but still, i think that not so much the appropriate level of attention is paid to this in our country, including to its key representatives of sports or art, again, who represent

the country at the highest level, meaning that even more support from the state is needed in the coverage and in financing probably, yes, you know, yes, 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, what is required of us. during these months, while abroad, they sang in support of ukraine, and where a lot of ukrainian music was played , in particular, in particular, the same peter help, er , i already spoke about it, er, this is the director of the subway operator of new york, vin invited me to take part in such a project that the ukrainian freedom orchestra recruited musicians from ukraine from various cities, this is lviv, this is kharkiv, this is kyiv , this is also other cities of ukraine and ukrainians who

are and live abroad, our musicians of the highest quality, and this project was conducted by his wife, the wife of peter gelba, er, kirilin wilson, that's what it was like, the subway projects and, uh, the warsaw national opera, if you could say it was a collaboration, that's how we traveled to a lot of countries. it's great britain, it's france and germany and again, it's the united states and scotland, ireland and poland, it lasted three weeks, by the way, i performed beethoven there, and there was also a pianist who performed a lot of different things, 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 country where the audience supports us the most, you know, it's such a demanding musical audience abroad, precisely in europe, because they have the opportunity to go to the best halls and listen and compare and so on and they don't look so much at that what is it according to the national sign, as they say, or how? and just how professional it is, how much it fits the soul, as they say, yes, and so it was perceived perfectly, and it was just royal albert hall in london , great britain. it was just concert number two

because everything started in warsaw and ended in washington, and this is all a big tour, it was in various other countries, it was very difficult for everyone , but it was, as it were, at the call of the heart and it was very interesting creatively. so, i say the audience when we already saw when we went out there bowing 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, it just became such a trend, and for you in particular, a lot of people took an example from you when you went to the subway uh, for a bow wrapped in a ukrainian offense with the biggest flag that the director gave me. so it was phenomenal and it was just my personal idea, so i just asked for permission because it is such an unprecedented case to go on such a stage with well

, you know, they are trying their best - also, don't 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 serhii kislytsia, our representative at the un, was just at these their performances there were several. so there was a live broadcast to all of europe from america. well, this is the production of franko zakhareli, so famous there, where the costumes are very beautiful, and the shorthand, and well , the whole action is there, like a film, just unharnessing over it. well, so we really perform a lot of these and

this is ukrainian songs. of course, in concerts of such people, there is support for ukraine, support for ukraine. yes , recently again with the presidential orchestra. we are just in berlin with the support of our andrii melnyk, who was our ambassador to germany at the time. we are the philharmonic orchestra. they did in berlin, so there was a lot of support and in general , these eyes and these hearts and these you know this feedback, you always feel it, it is very inspiring and hope and hope , after all, it inspires us for the best, that everything will be fine, everything will be well, at the very end, i wanted to ask you what helps you to endure air raids , turning off the lights, rocket attacks, what supports you, well, since i myself am a musician

, well, if i was a singer, i listen to a lot of different music , diverse me by the way, you know how meditation puts me in a different mood and the music is also different and diverse, or by the way, i like this one from the 50s of the last century , like frank sinatra or geoffrey jeral, but that’s all mine, listen to the music, i read a lot of music, and i like that one there are some family sagas out there, you know such a plan , that's how i get distracted, i just get distracted well, it's very important when i know that everything is fine with my relatives, well, everything is fine with my children and when my soul is calm, as they say, peace of mind is this well, of course, work is such a distraction for me because i have to transform myself into another heroine, and for a while, work also helps

me not to despair and find the strength to continue living and working. thank you, ms. lyudmila for glorifying ukraine, support ukraine, attack ukraine on all world european platforms, god grant that this will 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, tell me honestly how you i hold on, i hold on honestly, but if you cover up, it covers up strongly the last time it was a story with a dog crimea, this story touched me very much then, i just sit and cry , put your feet shoulder width apart, smoothly raise your right hand up, reach up with the edge of your right palm

as if you are trying to press with it to the sky, and with the rib of your left hand, reach down in this position , take several smooth inhalations and exhalations. imagine that you are a tree that is slowly swayed by the gentle wind . exhale slowly, lower them, rest for a few seconds and do the same, but already with the other hand, put this technique in your self-help kit, it’s more difficult here to hold the rear when the children are at the front

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