For many in Ukraine, this is a war of 'decolonisation' " and that includes Russia's celebrated artistic heritage At the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv recently, I watched a performance of an opera by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. The work, charming and comic and an escape from the grimness of Russian missile attacks, is called Natalka Poltavka, based on a play by Ivan Kotliarevsky, who pioneered Ukrainia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42PM on November 7, 2022