Covent Garden conductor: My brother is building barricades in Ukraine
NewsFrom a Times interview with Oksana Lyniv:
Her mother, father and brother had been hiding in a bunker in their garden that has survived since it was built during the First World War by German soldiers. In peacetime, the family used it as a vegetable store.
“When they have the sirens a few times during the day or night, she has only a few minutes to go down to the vegetable cellar,” Lyniv said. “It was a bunker for German soldiers. As a child I was always very proud of this. I would tell children from my school, ‘Come with me and I will show you the bunker in my garden.’ It is deep under the earth. It’s always cold.”
She said that when the sirens sounded, everyone in the house, including two visiting refugee families, took shelter in the bunker. “Cats, dogs, everybody is sitting there. My father arranged [a heater] to make it a little bit warmer.”
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The Royal Opera — Concert for Ukraine will take place at 4.30pm at the Royal Opera House. It will also be streamed online
Why do those who are artistically total air pumps always have to get so loudly politically involved? Oh, right, they have to attract the attention of the media somehow.
Because it’s her immediate family who are involved, and not just a story off the latest news bulletin!
Right. It can’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that her country is attacked and that her family is barely surviving. No, it has to be all attention seeking.
How’s life on Planet Putin?
Why do those who are [intellectually] total air pumps always have to get so loudly politically involved? Oh, right, they have to attract the attention of [anyone] somehow.
To say this of someone with family suffering in Ukraine is morally reprehensible.
I think this site reported the other day that Oksana was too exhausted to continue preparing a production in Bologna… but I gather she did turn up to conduct at the ROH’s Ukraine concert on Good Friday. Can anyone confirm?