Volodymyr Shchur is a Ukrainian opera singer and artist of the Honoured Academic Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Topics include:

• “Opera singing is something between science, sport, and art”

• How the Ukrainian language and climate affect singing

• “We have all the chances to create a Ukrainian opera singing school”

• Strict bends for Ukrainian singers during the Soviet Union

• Borys Hmyrya - “basso-absoluto”

• Story of the life of a legendary Ukrainian opera singer. He released 250 vinyl releases and 120 re-issues, and you couldn't find all these recordings in the Soviet Union

• They were for sale abroad

• Hmyrya recordings in La Scala museum

• The future of Ukrainian opera

• “Ukraine is not only gopak and borsht. We have academic art and a long, beautiful classical tradition”