Act I ‘Sofia’ composed by Albert Saprykin
Orest Smovzh (violin) and Albert Saprykin (electronics)
‘Sofia’ opens the curtain on 1930s Kyiv amid Stalinist repressions. Sofia is the wife of writer and literary critic Mykola Zerov, who is sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp and secretly executed in Sandarmokh a year later. Through correspondence, Sofia falls in love with Viktor Petrov, also a writer, evading arrest by supplying information to Soviet authorities. They bring their relationship to fruition only in their 60s, spending their final few years together. In present-day Kyiv, a young man intently studies Sofia’s story through archival documents.
Act II: ‘Uliana’ composed by Boris Logi...