The museum opens a cycle of six lectures on the most iconic event of Krushelnytska's career — the rescue of Puccini's Madama Butterfly in Brescia on 28 May 1904 after the disastrous Milan premiere.
In February 2026 the Solomiya Krushelnytska Memorial Museum opens a new lecture cycle 'Brescia 28 May 1904 — A Deep Analysis of the Rescue of Madama Butterfly'. Six lectures, held every Tuesday during February-March, in detail reveal one of the most iconic events of world opera history: when a young Ukrainian soprano (32 years old at the time) saved Giacomo Puccini's masterpiece from oblivion.
Lecture cycle: 'The Milan Failure of 17 February 1904 — Anatomy of the Catastrophe at La Scala'; 'How Puccini Chose Krushelnytska for the Second Chance'; 'Brescia 28 May 1904 — Seven Weeks Between Defeat and Triumph'; 'The Voice That Changed Opera — Technical Analysis of the Cio-Cio-San Part in Solomiya's Performance'; 'Brescia Success and the Further World Fate of Madama Butterfly'; '120 Years Later — Brescia Triumph 1904 in the Cultural Memory of Italy and Ukraine'. A feature of the cycle — the use of real Puccini letters to Krushelnytska (cross-ref Phase 3.13 epistolary acquisition news), which allows the reconstruction of the psychological context of events. Programme lecturers: Italian opera historians from Teatro alla Scala, Ukrainian musicologists from the Lviv Conservatory, American Puccini researchers from the Boston Conservatory. Cross-ref Phase 2.13 Brescia 1904 exhibition.
