Solomea: Star of Opera's Golden Age
Solomea: Star of Opera's Golden Age
(Соломія: Зірка Золотої доби опери)
Author: Andriy Semotiuk
Translators: Halyna Stashkiw
Translation: English to Ukrainian
Solomea Krushelnytska was Ukraine's greatest opera star and a leading lyric-dramatic soprano in the Golden Age of opera in the first decade of the 1900s. Known as the soprano who “rescued” Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, her legacy is revered in Ukraine and her life is only now coming to light in Europe and North America. The English-language book, released in 2022, is the most authoritative biographical work on Krushelnytska and, with this translation, her life story will be available to the Ukrainian-speaking world.