Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv, who is now the musical director of the municipal theater of Bologna, received a special award from Oper! Awards. She was awarded for "

The conductor dedicated the award to her colleagues from the theater of Bologna, especially the orchestra, who showed their sympathy and support from the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion. She also added that during the year she, together with the theater orchestra, played more than 10 pieces of modern Ukrainian music, including them in the Bologna programs.

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“I also dedicate this award to my entire team of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Together, after the first evacuation operations of young musicians from war zones, we not only tried to save them, we carried out many musical projects in cooperation with important international institutions in order to restore faith, support and hope to this young generation of musicians through music,” Lyniv added..

Oksana Lyniv - Ukrainian conductor, founder and artistic director of the LvivMozArt festival, founder and chief conductor of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. In 2021 Oksana Liniv became the first female conductor in the 145 years of the Bayreuth Festival history. In October 2021, she was appointed music director of the greatest Italian opera house Bologna. Prior to this, for 260 years, this position was held only by men..

In April 2022, Lyniv got into a scandal because she was preparing the premiere of the opera Iolanta in Russian with Russian actors at the Bologna Theater. This caused dissatisfaction among the Ukrainian cultural community, the Ark Ukraine platform announced that it was breaking off cooperation with the conductor.

Lyniv then stated that she was staging plays by composers who were associated with Ukraine, and also collaborated with artists who opposed the war.. The premiere of "