Krushelnytska's Legacy — The Voice of Ukraine on Contemporary Opera Stages

The upcoming exhibition traces the living legacy of Solomiya Krushelnytska in contemporary Ukrainian opera culture. The centrepiece is the International Solomiya Krushelnytska Opera Singers Competition, held in Lviv since 1992 and becoming one of the most prestigious opera competitions in Central-Eastern Europe. The exhibition shows posters, programmes, photo chronicles of competition performances, interviews with laureates of different years. A separate section is dedicated to contemporary Ukrainian opera divas who continue Krushelnytska's tradition on the world stages: graduates of the Lviv Conservatory and the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv. The hall displays a digital reconstruction of Krushelnytska's audio recordings from HMV and Fonotipia shellac discs (1903-1925) — cross-reference with the Museum of Ukrainian Sound Recording (Phase 2.10), where these original recordings are preserved. Contemporary Ukrainian opera singers perform from Krushelnytska's signature repertoire — Aida, Tosca, Marguerite, Cio-Cio-San, Brunhilde — and these performances are recorded on vinyl and digital formats. The exposition emphasises: Krushelnytska is not only the voice of her era, but also a living standard of the Ukrainian vocal tradition — a school that survives occupations, wars, dictatorships and continues to form the next generation of Ukrainian performers on the world opera stages.