LEISURE BULLETIN

Curtain at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted

Theater
National Opera of Ukraine
(vul. Volodymyrska 50, tel. 279-1169)

29 – La Traviata, opera (in Italian)
by Verdi
30 – Concert in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Wagner’s birth
31 – La Bayadere, ballet by Minkus
1 – Gala concert
2 – Corsair, ballet by Adam
4 – Swan Lake, ballet by Tchaikovsky

Ivan Franko National Drama Theater
(pl. Franka 3, tel. 279-5921)

29 – Small stage. Morituri Te
Salutant by Stefanyk
29 – Small Family Crimes by Schmitt
30 – The Tempest by Shakespeare
1 – Small stage. Overture to
Rendezvous by Franko
1 – Martyn Borulia by Karpenko-Kary
2 – The Taming of the Shrew
by Shakespeare
4 – Edith Piaf. Life on Credit
by Rybchynsky and Vasalatii

Lesia Ukrainka National Russian Drama Theater
(vul. Khmelnytskoho 5, tel. 234-4223)

30 – Le Malade Imaginaire by Moliere
31, 3 – The Follies of Love by Regnard
31 (at 8 p.m.) – Marriages Are Made
in Heaven (based on Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace)
1 – Imprisoned by Passions
(The Stone Host) by Lesia Ukrainka
2 (at 6 p.m.) – The Last Love
by Mukhariamov
2 – The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov
2 (at 8 p.m.) – Aleksandr Vertinsky. The Lord’s Ball. One-man show
4 – Cemetery Club by Menchell
4 (at 8 p.m.) – Fat Pig by LaBute

Drama and Comedy Academic Theater on the Left Bank
(Brovarsky prosp. 25, tel. 517-8980)

29 – Trades’ Rubber by Levin
30 – Opiskin. Foma by Dostoevsky
31 – Where the Wind Blows
(based on Pirandello’s comedy Liola)
31 – Small stage. Days Are Whistling By by Koliada
1 – Lying the Truth by Berger
2 – Line by Mardan
4 – Small stage. Premiere.
Two Little Ladies Head North by Notte

Music
National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine
(Volodymyrsky uzviz 2, tel. 278-1697)

3 – Jazz Music Concert
4 – National Brass Band of Ukraine conducted by Mykhailo Moroz. Solists: Valentyna Matiushenko
(soprano), Artem Pohorelov (piano)

National House of Organ and Chamber Music of Ukraine
(vul. Velyka Vasylkivska 75, tel. 528-3186)

(Curtain at 7:30 p.m.)
29 – Orchestra of Liatoshynsky
Classical Music Ensemble conducted by Peter Gasior (Denmark).
Soloist: Valeria Balakhovska (organ)
30 – Lysenko Quartet, Kateryna Bazhenova (piano), Volodymyr Koshuba (organ)
31 – Ravisan Trio, Liudmyla
Voinarovska (soprano), Oleh Moroz (clarinet), Natalia Kravchenko (piano), Hanna Bubnova (organ)
1 – Volodymyr Koshuba (organ)
3 – Tamara Roi (flute), Kateryna Bazhenova (piano), Iryna Kharechko (organ)
4 – Maksym Sydorenko (organ), Larysa Nazarenko (soprano)

Festivals

The 23rd International Festival “Musical Season’s Premieres”
(National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine)

29-31 – Concerts by festival
participants

The 6th International Choral Festival “Musical Meetings”
(National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine)

2 – Concert by festival participants

Circus
National Circus
(pl. Peremohy 2, tel. 486-3856)

May 29-June 30 – Alley-Oop! Show
Beginning at 7 p.m. on Fri.; 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Sat., Sun.

Museums
Kyiv Pechersk National Historical and Cultural Preserve
(vul. Ivana Mazepy 21)

Standing exhibits: Lavra Treasury. 17th-20th cc. Relics (from the
preserve’s collection); Spiritual Relics of Ukraine (holograms);
Mykola Siadrysty (microminiatures)
Open 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

Kyiv Sophia National Museum
(vul. Volodymyrska 24)

May 28-July 1 – “Kyivan Rus’”
(In commemoration of the 900th
anniversary of Volodymyr
Monomakh’s Enthronement)
Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Wed.

National Art Museum
(vul. Hrushevskoho 6)

May 28-June 15 – Exhibition project “Terrain Orientation”
Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; noon-8 p.m. on Fri.; 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Sat.
Closed Mon., Tues.

Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Art Museum
(vul. Tereshchenkivska 15-17)

Open 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Closed Mon., Tues.

Museum of the Hetman State
(vul. Spaska 16b)

May 28-June 9 – Borys Nehoda
(oil pastel)
Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Fri.

Galleries
AVS-Art
(vul. Vozdvyzhenska 10b)

May 28-June 1 – Oksana
Yadchuk-Machynska (paintings)
Open 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Closed Sun., Mon.

Mystetska Zbirka
(vul. Tereshchenkivska 13, entrance through the arch)

May 28-June 16 – Olha Konoshchuk (paintings)
Open 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Closed Mon., Tues.

Parsuna
(vul. Khoryva 43)

May 28-June 30 – Natalia
Dolhannykova (author’s dolls),
Oleh Zelikov (paintings)
Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sat. Closed Sun.

Jacob Greter Art Center
(vul. Vadyma Hetmana 6, Bolshevik shopping mall)

May 28-Jun. 30 – Paintings
by Ukrainian artists
Open 11 a.m.-9 p.m.