Death metal, Schubert, nudity: opera about Ukraine dam destruction premieres in Kyiv

Death metal, Schubert, nudity: opera about Ukraine dam destruction premieres in Kyiv

Gaia-24 explores human and environmental disaster caused by Russian attack on Kakhovka dam

Taking a casual glance at the elegant Kyivans queueing outside the lemon-yellow neoclassical theatre perched above Independence Square, an onlooker would have few hints that there was a war on.

But the opera that premiered at the International Centre of Culture and Arts last week is inextricably bound up with the deadly events of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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