Cast Statement

To create art, whatever your artistic medium may be, is an exercise in expressing oneself. In our medium of opera, not just one voice is heard but many. From the musicians to the singers and the production team, many voices come together to communicate a message. In order to permit this type of communication, a safe and free environment must be upheld.

We thank Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, and USC Thornton School of Music for supporting our voices being heard. As students and artists, we come from all over the world and walks of life to these institutions. In their halls, we create and express ourselves freely and thus inspire a kaleidoscope of art.

In our production of Uljas Pulkkis & Glenda Goss’ opera All the Truths We Cannot See, we discuss the delicate and complicated subject of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown. This horror, caused by man’s thirst for power, affected the very being of the Ukrainian people, and the Ukrainian land and nature itself. As a production, we have collectively joined our voices to highlight the wake of destruction caused by man’s quest for destruction.

Little did we know, when we first started to learn this piece two years ago that on Thursday, the 24th of February 2022, we would wake in horror to the unlawful invasion of Ukraine. That we would witness man’s crazed quest for power, undo the freedoms of their fellow man and leave in their wake destruction once more. This darkened day reaffirmed the need for us as a production to express the subject of our opera.

Thus, we join our voices as artists collectively once more to condemn the unjust invasion of Ukraine and the damage it has and will cause to innocent lives. We wish for peace, and we will support the people of Ukraine in the ways in which we can. For they deserve to live, to express themselves and let their voices be heard without fear. We wish this freedom to be given to Ukraine, so that they can continue to flourish once more.

As members of the artistic team for the opera All the Truths We Cannot See: A Chernobyl Story, we condemn the brutal and unwarranted invasion of Ukraine. We stand with Ukraine, and with the rest of the world we call for an end to Russia’s military aggression.