Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra in Berlin • Event Documentation

Documentation with interviews and concert excerpts:
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, Conductor: Keri-Lynn Wilson
Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to 'La forza del destino'
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (with Ukrainian Freedom Chorus 'Ode to Joy')
Ukrainian Freedom Chorus, Soprano: Olga Kulchynska, Mezzo-Soprano: Nicole Chirka, Tenor: Vassily Solodkyy, Bass-Bariton: Vladyslav Buialskyi
A project of the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Filmed and edited by CrossGeneration Media, produced by PR² classic and otbmedien.
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On the occasion of Ukrainian Independence Day on August 24, the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra will play as part of the Cultural Summer Festival on the Kastellanswiese in the historic Schönhausen Palace Garden. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Joe Chialo, Senator for Culture and Social Cohesion, and Oleksii Makeiev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Federal Republic of Germany, will speak in welcome.
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra is making a statement against war with its performances on its European tour and is letting the musical program speak for itself: Verdi's overture to his opera "The Power of Destiny," which premiered in 1862 at the Bolshoi Theater in St. Petersburg, will be followed by the Second Violin Concerto by the great Ukrainian composer Yevhen Stankovych. The symphonic highlight of the guest performance is Beethoven's 9th Symphony with choir singing Friedrich Schiller's Ode to Joy in Ukrainian. In 1985, the main theme of the last movement of the 9th Symphony, which is now one of the most popular works of classical music in the world, was declared the official European anthem. The Cultural Summer Festival invites all Berliners* and guests to attend this special concert on August 24, free of charge and outdoors, and celebrate Ukrainian Independence Day together.
"The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra is the musical voice of Ukraine. Universal and understandable without translation, music is a language we can use to speak to the world. I invite you to attend the concerts of the UFO 2023 Summer Freedom Tour to hear the timeless message of liberty contained in the eternal classics of their program. Music will speak to silence aggression." Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine
Filmed in Berlin on August 24th 2023
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