2023-04-22 09:00:00
The Opera House in Odesa, southern Ukraine, March 5, 2022./Salwan Georges/The Washington Post/Getty Images
2023.04.22 Sat posted at 18:00 JST
（ＣＮＮ） The opera house in Odesa, a port city in southern Ukraine, announced on the 22nd that dancer Rostislav Yanchishen, 31, had died during a battle on the front lines.
Rostislav, who had been with Odesa Opera for more than a decade, enlisted in the army to defend Ukraine on the first day of the invasion, according to its official Facebook page. “As a result, his ballet shoes were replaced by military boots, and his favorite stage music was replaced by the sound of mortar fire.”
“He was a brilliant, polite and intelligent man. He was the first to go to defend his homeland. He did not respond to summons or orders, but made his own decisions,” said the director of the ballet company. rice field.
According to the opera house, one of Yang Chi-Sheng’s most memorable roles was that of a dying soldier in the ballet Tolimai.
“As fate would have it, this role predicted his future.” (Opera)
Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture also paid tribute to Yanchishen on Facebook, calling it an “indescribable loss” and mourning his death.
According to the culture ministry, Mr. Yanqisheng wanted to join the defense mission from the beginning of the invasion, but was unable to join the regular army, so he volunteered to join the territorial defense force. He was a machine gunner on the front line.
He was killed in a mortar attack on April 19, one month before his 32nd birthday.
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