Farewell to Ukrainian director Roman Viktyuk will be held in Lviv on Nov. 23.
“On Monday, Nov. 23, a farewell will be held to outstanding thater director, man of Light, Genius and Maestro Roman Hryhorovych Viktyuk,” his niece Kateryna Viktyuk wrote on her Facebook page.
According to Kateryna Viktyuk, at 9 a.m. the coffin will be taken out of the apartment on 7 Halytska Square, and will be moved to the First Ukrainian Theater for Children and Youth on 11 Hnatiuka Street. The farewell ceremony will begin there at 10 a.m. A civil funeral service is scheduled for 12 p.m. in the premises of the First Theater.
At 1:30 p.m., the transition to the Church of St. Andrew of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) will take place on Soborna Square, after the funeral in the church, the procession will move to Lychakiv Cemetery. The tomb of the Viktyuk family is located there.
As reported, Viktyuk died in Moscow on Nov. 17 at the age of 84 after he was hospitalized with COVID-19.
Roman Viktyuk was born in Lviv in 1936. He studied at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow. After graduation, he worked in Lviv, Kyiv, Vilnius (Lithuania), Tallinn (Estonia), Riga (Latvia), and various cities of the Russian Federation. Since the 1970s, he has staged performances in various theaters in Moscow, and in 1991 he opened his own Roman Viktyuk Theater there, which after five years received the status of a state one.
