On January 30, 2021, Mykhailo Kobryn, Director of Solomiya Krushelnytska Musical Memorial Museum in Lviv, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Theologian, was invited to the Discussion Club of the XIV International School of Ukrainian Studies «Step to Ukraine» by the International Institute of Education, Culture and Diaspora Relations, Lviv Polytechnic National University. The event was moderated by Nazar Danchyshyn, a junior researcher at the Institute.
The museum worker met students from Brazil, Kazakhstan, China, Germany and Serbia in the house of opera singer Solomiya Krushelnytska with the interior of the early twentieth century. Here Mykhailo Kobryn conducted a virtual tour of the exhibition rooms and told interesting facts from the life of the diva. Students saw a piano played by Solomiya Krushelnytska and composer Myroslav Skoryk, portraits, original photographs, posters, and recreated theatre costumes of the artist.
The atmosphere of the house with its exhibits and the story of Mykhailo Kobryn revealed to the members of the Discussion Club Solomiya Krushelnytska as a woman of progressive views, who decided to get married at a very late age – 38, loved to play roulette and was the first Ukrainian to drive a car. From an artistic point of view, the opera diva was an actress who from a noble woman transformed into a fragile Japanese woman on stage and gave new life and triumph to seemingly failed operas, as was the case with Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.
On January 31, 2021, a virtual meeting with Roman Dutka, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Doctor of Ukraine, Head of the Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Medicine, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, took place within the Discussion Club of the XIV International School of Ukrainian Studies «Step to Ukraine» by the International Institute of Education, Culture and Diaspora Relations, Lviv Polytechnic National University. The event was moderated by Olena Mytsko, a leading specialist of the Institute.
