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title: "From Page to Stage: Ukrainian Opera Rediscovered with Help of UMD Professor Presented at The Clarice"
date: 2026-04-30T00:00:00-04:00
author: Ella LaGrange
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# From Page to Stage: Ukrainian Opera Rediscovered with Help of UMD Professor Presented at The Clarice

*April 30, 2026* — by Ella LaGrange
> The Program Explored “Harkusha” and the Evolution of Ukrainian Composer Mykola Lysenko’s Vocal Music in Conversation with Influential Works.

For more than a century, fragments of an unfinished opera by renowned Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko sat largely unexplored. New research by Michael Lavery, assistant professor of Russian in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, revealed how the pieces fit together and led to a recent world premiere by the Maryland Opera Studio.

- [Read More on Lavery's Research](https://arhu.umd.edu/news/page-stage-ukrainian-opera-rediscovered-help-umd-professor-presented-clarice)