WEEK, JUNE 23-30, 2001
During Visit of Pope John Paul II To
Ukraine
Composer Myroslav Skoryk
Lviv State Academic Theater for Opera and Ballet
Lviv, Ukraine, June 23-30, 2001.
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Moses Director/Producer Zbigniev Khshanovskyj busy at work after the dress rehearsal talking to various members of the cast and the managers. The Director/Produced stayed around for over an hour after the dress rehearsal working with various members of the opera team putting the finishing touches on the performance getting ready for the world premiere. Biographical Data -- |
Moses Director/Producer Zbigniev Khshanovskyj |
In 1969 Khshanovsky became the artistic director of the Polish National Theater in the Teacher's Building in Lviv. There he produced "Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare; "Antigone" by Anuyz; "The Wedding" by Vyspianskyj; and "The Old Woman" by Ruzhevych.
He also co-directed with the Lviv State Academic Theater for Opera and Ballet such works as "The Wedding" in 1969; "Dames and Hussars" in 1976. His works were recognized at the world festival of Polish Dramatic Arts in Moscow and he was awarded a Diploma by the USSR Ministry of Culture.
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Moses Director/Producer Zbigniev
Khshanovskyj
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In 1978 the Polish Ministry of Culture awarded him a national medal for recognition of his contribution to Polish Culture. From 1983 he has lived and worked in Poland and is connected with the theaters in Schetsini, Wroslav and Valbzhykh. In 1992 he was appointed Director of the cultural center in Pzemyshl. In 1991 the Polish President awarded him the Officer's Cross for contributions to Poland.
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Musician, educator and composer Myroslav Skoryk was born in 1938. From 1955 until 1960 he studied composition at the Lviv Conservatory, Lviv, Ukraine, with professor S. Liudkevych, P. Simovych and A. Soltys. Between 1960 and 1963, he studied for his master's degree at the Moscow Conservatory with Dmitri Kabelevsky.. Since 1968, he has been the secretary of the Ukrainian Composer's Union. Mr. Skoryk is a laureate of Ukraine's Taras Shevchenko Prize and hold the title of "People's Artist of Ukraine." Myroslav Skoryk is today one of Ukraine's most distinguished musical artists and educators. He has been a professor of the Lviv and Kyiv Conservatories since 1984 and head of the Lviv Branch of the Ukrainian Composer's Union. His works include: Ballet "Kameniary", Concerto for Orchestra "Carpathian, Requiem for Chorus and Soloists," the "Hutsul Triptych" for symphonic orchestra, "Partita No. 1-7", music for the film "Shadows for Forgotten Ancestors" and "Toccata".
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Musician, educator and composer
Myroslav Skoryk
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Bohdan Stelmakh...co-writer of the libretto for "Moses" with composer
Myroslav Skoryk, was born in 1943. He is the writer of more than 30 collections
of books and verses, songs, and dramatic poems. His plays, "The Majic
of True Song," "Golden and Dear", "Tailcoat Of A Higher Degree," and "Indigence
Teaches", were performed on various stages of Ukrainian theaters.
Mr. Stelmakh is the author of the remake of the libretto for "Kupalo" by A. Vakhnianskyj, and "Roksolana," by D. Sichynskyj. He is also the writer for the libretto for the modern musical by Yuriy Svenko "Viruyu" performed on the Lviv Opera state for the Second Congress of Ukrainian Youth for Christ (1993).