A few hours before the outbreak of a full-scale war, the soloist of the National Opera of Ukraine, Olha Matushenko, sang on the main stage of the country - in the performance of Natalka Poltavka. Thunders of applause drowned out the sounds of explosions... 

How the war started for her, why the famous opera singer collects glasses, what soap opera has to do with it, and how it happened that Violeta from La Traviata never died because of the war, Olha Matushenko shares.