MAZEPA OF UKRAINE

A musical dramatisation of Lord Byron’s epic poem ‘Mazepa’ - the Ukrainian Cossack hero Ivan Mazepa who, as a young page at the Polish Court, fell in love with the Countess of Palatine, was caught ‘in flagrante’ by her husband; was beaten to within a hair’s breadth of his death, stripped naked, tied to the back of a horse and sent into the Ukrainian Steppes to a ‘certain’ death. There he braved the attack of wild wolves, untamed steeds, a raging river, a dense forest of trees whose branches would flay Mazepa alive, the death of his trusted horse from exhaustion and finally the fending off of hungry vultures …

Complimented with rousing choral and solo songs from the Classical Ukrainian Repertoire ‘…A mixture of heavenly sopranos, deep resonant altos, bright rounded tenors and dark voluminous basses… a focused and passionately committed performance of Ukrainian and international songs – a delight for our eyes and ears…’

King Henry VIII School, Warwick Rd, Coventry DIRECTIONS

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