«It’s not enough to be born with a talent. It takes a lot of study and daily work. Singers are like athletes. They have to train: learn languages, take care of their stage presence, open themselves up to knowledge.”
When the new world opened up, she, Oleksandra Chaikovska, born in 2001, a Ukrainian opera singer, held a folder of scores in her mind and jealously guarded the dreams to be realized in her chest.
He came from the noise of the air raid sirens, he didn’t know anyone, he didn’t understand the language but he knew how to support the weight of the audience, enchanting and stopping the world with the magnificence of his voice.
«My name is Oleksandra – she says in the introduction – some call me Alessandra and many call me Sasha. I come from a place where there is still war and I am grateful to the Italians for the concrete support they have given to my people. In 2022 I escaped the war. I didn’t know Messina. I only knew that it was in Sicily and in general I thought that I would visit Italy one day for holidays.”
A journey, the musical one, which began as a child. First in the company of my grandmother who sang a few songs as per tradition, then in a real school.
Until the next steps: «I’m originally from Mykolaiv – she says – I studied in Odessa at the music academy and when the war broke out I was in my first year. My family and I had to flee because the bombings were constant. Where I was studying they told me that there was an agreement with the “Arcangelo Corelli” conservatory in Messina and that I could continue my journey as a guest student.”
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