Solomia Crushelnytska lived a long and great life. She was called "unforgettable Aida", "the only in the wolds Gaconda", "the most charming Chio-Chio-Sun", "ideal Brunhilda", "the most beautiful Salomea", "exceptional Loreleya" int the wide world where she performed on the best opera stages with great triumph. Arthuro Toskaniny witnessed that the images the singer created in operas of Vahner, Strausse, Pizzety, Catalany, Puchiny are remaining unsurpassed. Famous composers, conductors, singers, musicians, writers and poets of the world such as Gacomo Puchiny, Rugero Leoncavallo, Arthuro Toskaniny, Rihard Strausse, Leonardo Munyone, Enrico Caruzo, Fedir Shalyapin, Mattia Batistiny, Elronora Duze and many others were the passinate admirers of her talent, her sincere friends. The creative work of Solomia Crushelnytska had a greate influence on the development of vocal art in the whole world.

Who is this charming singer who could fascinate hearts of the most exacting critics and listeners of the world by her pure, as a dew on the wild flowers, voice, artistic faculty, deserve the most solemn honour and the world recognition?

Solomia Crushelnytska was born in September, 23 of 1873 in Bilyavyntsy village of Buchach region in Ternopil state in priest's family. Her father had progressive views that was rarity in his encirclement.

Childhood of the future singer passed in Bila village near Ternopil where her family moved.

In early age Solomia is interested of music and singing, learns to play piano and in the age of 10 performs in the chorus "Ruska besida" in Ternopil.

Living in the countryland amoug common diligent peaple Solomia learnt not only to love but deeply by all her heart understand folk songs. She didn't part with them right to the death.

Feeling Solomia's inclination to music and singing her father borrowed money and sent her off to Lviv conservatoire which she graduated with a medal and a decoration in 1893. The exam commissin wrote in Diploma of a young singer: "She has all data to become an adornment event of a paramount stage..." But the singer doesn't spot on her achievent and goes into Milan where studies in a glorious professor Fausta Craspy.

A year later Solomia already sings the leading parts in the better opera theaters of Italy. Triumph that she achieved in this country widely opened the doors of opera theatres of Russia, Poland, France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Egypt, North and South America and many other countriesof the world before her. "The inborn musician Solomia Crushelnytska darkened other performers of Vagner's operas where she performed marvellously with confidence and with a real aristocracy. Noteworthy is that that after "Valkiriya" she easy sings in "Loreleya", after "Mefistofel" in "Madam Butterfly", after "Tristan and Isolda" in "Adrian Lecyvrer", "Aiida" or "Salomea"... completely plunges in charming world of singing and play created by herself... "

At the height of her fame Solomia Crushelnytska left opera stage (1915) and devoted herself to the concert activity. It's iteresting to know that the singer wherever she would perform she included Ukrainian folk song and works of other Ukrainian composers by which she finished her concerts each time accompnying herself.

...There are people who die long before their physical death. But some on the contrary even after death follow to live in the ages. And not only live but shine by a star for all coming generations. To such people Solomia Crushelnytska depends on in right. And for that Ukraine will never forget her.

Mykhailo Holovashchenko