Hanna Vasiutkevych, soprano in the theaters of Donetsk and then of Kiev, will now sing in Milan. Dreams slowly take shape. Here the singer is re-tying the threads of her life, overturned by the war that forced her to leave Ukraine, with her husband, two children, a dog and a cat.
In his words the desire to look ahead
In his words the desire to look ahead, study singing again, be ready for the auditions next spring, even at La Scala, and regain possession of the everyday life that suddenly vanished that February 24 that we all sadly remember. Hanna first she crossed the border into Poland, where she stayed for a month, then she decided to try to come to Italy.
Hanna: “Here you love animals, they are welcome too”
The reason? Apart from the strong solidarity of the people, shown from North to South, “here you love animals, they are welcome too. In Poland I could not keep them with me. In your country there are no problems. And dogs can be taken around,” everywhere “the opera singer explains to AGI. In short, that Italy was pet friendly was an advantage. And then the chain of solidarity played the lion’s role.
Welcomed in Milan by Tommaso Borioli and his girlfriend of Russian origin Nadia Safronova
“There are several internet sites where I had put our request for help. Many replied to me. In particular a woman, a volunteer, suggested that I come to Italy. We didn’t know each other, then when I told her I was a singer of opera asked me to send her a video. And, amazingly, her husband was the director of the opera house in Cagliari “. Sometimes fate plays in favor. “They offered me to go there for a 2 week project as a backing vocalist.” Milan, Cagliari, and then back to Milan. Here Hanna and her family found a place in the Superstudio ‘village’ in via Negrotto, 59. A real ‘pearl’ of coexistence for 30 Ukrainian families. It is the space made available by Tommaso Borioli, and by his girlfriend of Russian origin Nadia Safronova.
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