Student Production of the Opera “Winter and Spring”

26.12.2025

On December 3, 2025, the premiere of Mykola Lysenko’s students’ opera “Winter and Spring” took place.

Opera by Mykola Lysenko in 2 acts

Libret by Dneprova Chaika

Director – Yanina Vyshegorodska

We invite you to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suh1BXN2VDQ&t=2380s

The opera “Winter and Spring” is a fantastic story about how the seasons change. The harsh, grumbling Frost mercilessly drives away the sad, weeping Autumn. The beautiful Winter appears with her faithful servants Metelitsa and Ozheleddy. They brought with them magical winter holidays with their beautiful joys. Soon the Owl-prophet warns that it is time for Winter and her servants to flee, because birds are already flying – the first heralds of warmth. With ringing joyful freckles, the bright beauty Spring arrives. She brings with her the awakening of nature, love and joy to work.

The main idea of ​​the opera is the victory of light over darkness and the flowering of new life-giving forces. The fairy-tale characters of the opera are living beings, they have bright character traits, which is why the fairy-tale and fantastic world of nature, filled with the working life of the people, their customs and rituals, comes to life and becomes real.

Creative team:

Director-producer – Yanina Vyshegorodska
Head of the choir group – Viktoriia Yunda
Head of the orchestra group – 4th year student majoring in “Musical Art” Mykyta Savenko
Orchestration – students majoring in “Musical Art” Tetiana Solod and Hlib Shapovalenko
Head of the choreographic group – Liudmyla Sokil

Choreographic group:
Ilona Lytovka, Polina Matyushenko, Angelina Klymova, Diana Kolisnichenko, Ella Kurylenko, Marina Shalda, Bohdan Poltavets

Main roles:

Autumn – Olena Mykhailovska
Frost – Anton Hyria
Winter – Yelyzaveta Melnyk
Spring – Diana Otych
Girl-Fairytale – Viktoriia Ivanikova
Wind – Volodymyr Tsap
Girl-Spindle – Yanina Vyshegorodska
Girl-Spindle – Karina Vostretsova
Grandfather-Soothsayer – Oleksandr Zakrevskyi
Khlopets-Hrebin – Denys Akhmadzyanov
Sych-Vishchun – Mykyta Fenenko
Ozheled – Svitlana Nedoidok
Metelitsa – Inna Bolkhovitina
Choir “Vivo” – carol singers and donors

Orchestra group:

Tatiana Ostretsova – piano
Olena Ponomarenko – piano
Tatiana Solod – flute
Polina Bybko – flute
Dmytro Kolomov – flute
Nazar Turzhanskyi – clarinet
Ivan Bezverkhnii – trumpet
Oleksandr Zakrevskyi – trombone
Hlib Shapovalenko – tuba

The team of the Center for Audiovisual Art of the Faculty of Arts worked on the creation of the video:
Cameramen – Yelyzaveta Kharakash, Denys Zozulia

Editor – Yelyzaveta Kharakash, Oleksandr Kalashnyk

We thank the Center for Culture and Leisure of the Poltava City Territorial Community for support!

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