22.08.2017, Tram Depot, Lviv, Ukraine
BEYOND THE MYTH. AMAZONS

Ukraine and personalities, past and present, national and international context.
Discussion, installation, performance, workshop, classical and modern opera. Pieces from music by W.A.Mozart for “Thamos, King of Egypt” play and vocal pieces from "Amazons" by Josèf Elsner (a rarity by a contemporary of Mozart living in Lviv) were a prologue to the main piece of the program - extracts from Hauke Berheide's opera “Mauerschau”. The opera, composed by the German composer and written by the American librettist Amy Stebbins, was commissioned by the Bavarian State Opera House for Munich Opera Festival held in 2016. Desperate Amazons, liberation struggle, manipulation of historical facts, events unfolding in the modern Crimea, love and myths - everything is closely intertwined in this topical-for-Ukraine work.
A famous Ukrainian artist Roman Mykhailov reconsidered the space of an old depot. Under impression from a new opera an artist created a large-scale project – thoughts about traumatic experience that leaves its trace on human body and on a society. Installation project coordinator – Darya Koltsova.

Supported by:
Bavarian State Opera
German Embassy in Ukraine
Zenko Foundation

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music to a Play “Thamos, King of Egypt”, KV 345/336a

Józef Elsner
Opera “Amazons, or Herminia”, libretto - Wojciech Bogusławski

Hauke Berheide
Opera “Mauerschau”, libretto - Amy Stebbins

Soloists: Tetyana Chayka (Ukraine) - Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons, Zoya Rozhok (Ukraine) - Penthesilea's High Shadow, Penthesilea's Low Shadow - Ivanna Lesyk-Sadivska (Ukraine), Vadym Chernihivskyy (Ukraine) - Achilles, King of Troy, Ihor Radvanskyy (Ukraine) - Achilles’ High Shadow, Andriy Stetskyy (Ukraine) - Achilles’ Low Shadow, Nataliya Rybka-Parkhomenko (Ukraine) – Envoy
Hauke Berheide (сomposer, Germany), Amy Stebbins (librettist, the USA), LvivMozArt Orchestra (Ukraine), LvivMozArt choir (Ukraine)
Conductors: Oksana Lyniv (Germany – Ukraine), Serhiy Khorovets (Ukraine)
Choreography: Maria Bakalo (Ukraine), Contemporary dance space Lviv (Ukraine)
Choirmaster: Roman Rybak (Ukraine)
Concertmaster: Iryna Zarytska (Ukraine)
Costume designer: Oksana Karavanska (Ukraine)
Scenography: Volodymyr Stetskovych (Ukraine)
Director: Andriy Vodychev (Ukraine)
Installations: Zenko Foundation, Festival Art-Partner
Idea and implementation: Oksana Lyniv (Ukraine-Germany)

Balance Engineer: Ivan Ohar, Time Based Stereo
TV Version: Young&Hungry Production 2017
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