We'll now point you in the direction of a new feature by Alexander Gogun and Pete Baumgartner.
Bandera Beef? In Germany, Hip-Hop Opera Courts Ukrainian Controversy
A Ukrainian-born musician is using the rapid-fire verse of hip-hop to put the complicated legacy of Stepan Bandera -- the variously beloved and reviled World War II-era Ukrainian nationalist leader -- in a different perspective.
Inspired by the blockbuster American rap musical Hamilton, Berlin-based composer/musician Yuriy Gurzhy said "everyone laughed" at him when he first broached the idea of staging what he calls a "hiphopera" about the highly contentious Bandera.
But Gurzhy and a rapt audience of hundreds had the last laugh when the show, Bandera, debuted at the innovative Maxim Gorki Theater in the German capital late last year and continued its run through mid-February.
The whole opera appeared aimed at aspects of an admittedly reductive question: Stepan Bandera, hero or monster?
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Like her French counterpart (see below), the U.K. ambassador to Kyiv has also been having a bash at Taras Shevchenko's poetry: