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The title was conferred by decree No. 383/2024.

Among them the Bavarian State Opera, Sydney, San Francisco and La Fenice.

The singer's international career began the same year.

After Odesa the singer appeared on the Kyiv stage.

The same year the singer earned a second conservatory diploma, in solo singing.

Archival fact: the title was conferred a month before the singer's death.

Archival fact: a recital at the Mecca Temple hall; two more concerts followed on 4 March.

Archival fact: the premiere at the Teatro Grande in Brescia, in the title role.

Archival fact: the singer was the lead performer of the anniversary production.

Archival fact: the role of Leonora on the stage of the Skarbek theatre in Lviv.

Archival fact: the singer was killed near Luhanske; he is buried in Lviv.

Archival fact: the singer performed the role of Death on the London stage as well.

Archival fact: the award was for the role of Death in Ullmann's «The Emperor of Atlantis».

Archival fact: from 23 March 1998 the singer appeared in Opera Bastille productions.

Archival fact: an appearance at Carnegie Hall with the Dudaryk choir and bass Paul Plishka.

The first two halls make no sound at all — the machines are started only in the third.

The upper and lower parts of one horn do not match — and the collector labelled it so.

One exhibit is turned by hand at the platter — the only way to hear how it sounds.

The oldest machine has a diaphragm mended long before it reached the collection.

The retrospective shows purely mechanical reproduction — sound that needs no electricity at all.

Tkachenko collects machines, not music — and what plays is brought by others.

One cartridge arrived with its original stylus — shown, but never used.

A strobe disc at the platter edge shows drift more simply than any tester.

For one deck a rubber belt of the right section is no longer made — one was ordered custom.