The world premiere of a full staging of the opera by Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets to a libretto by American playwright George Brant was held at the National Opera in Warsaw on October 16.
A concert version of highlights some months earlied had premiered in Kyiv, Ukraine, in the presence of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska, even as the city was being bombed. In April 2028, a full stage version of the opera is to open at the Metropolitan Opera in New York
In the programme: conductor and music director Keri-Lynn Wilson, composer Maxim Kolomiiets, librettist George Brant, soprano Izabela Matuła who sings Kateryna, and Yarema Malashchuk, co-author of the installation "You shouldn't have to see this" at the National Opera in Warsaw.
Presented by Elżbieta Krajewska.