The city’s opera house remains open despite the dangers posed by the conflict between local separatists and Ukrainian forcesBy now in Donetsk, everyone from children to pensioners can differentiate between the sound of incoming and outgoing fire, or identify a mortar or Grad rocket from its pitch. At the Donbass Opera, however, people are given very different choices to stimulate the senses: Verdi or Puccini; Strauss or Bizet.In a city where armed men in camouflage ride down the main street in tanks, more than half of the residents have fled and most shops and restaurants are closed, opera should perhaps …read more
Source: The Guardian
