The USC Thornton School of Music and Uniarts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy have announced a global partnership to premiere a new opera about the Chernobyl disaster. The new opera, titled All the Truths We Cannot See: A Chernobyl Story, will be premiered in Helsinki in March 2022 followed by the American premiere in Los Angeles in April 2022.

The work, by Finnish composer Uljas Pulkkis with American librettist Glenda Dawn Goss, tells a story of fundamental human conflicts woven into events surrounding the social and environmental disaster caused by the nuclear power plant’s explosion on April 26, 1986. An international cast will feature student performers from both institutions with a production directed and designed by faculty and designers from both countries.

Zineb will be performing the role of Babusya.