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Following its UK Premiere opening hcmf// 2022, Roman Grygoriv
and Illia Razumeiko’s Chornobyldorf has won a Royal Philharmonic
Society Award in the Opera and Music Theatre category.

Chornobyldorf. Archaeological opera in seven novels was conceived by

Ukrainian composers, stage directors and librettists Grygoriv and
Razumeiko, collaborating as Opera Aperta. Inspired by the impact of
nuclear power on our world, the contemporary media-opera tells the
story of descendants of humanity who have survived a series of man-

made and climate disasters and are now building a post-apocalyptic
settlement on the ruins of a nuclear powerplant.

Chornobyldorf was announced winner of the Opera and Music Theatre
category at the 2024 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, held on
Tuesday 5 March at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.

It was praised as “a breathtaking portrait of humanity’s need for