KazanOperaLab
Tomorrow Kazan will open the first Kazan opera laboratory-school of arts "KazanOperaLab". From December 7 to December 23 the first stage of the project will be held - an educational one, within the framework of which lectures, master classes and seminars will be held from the world's leading figures of music and theater.
KazanOperaLab is a creative and educational laboratory for young composers, directors, artists and playwrights, implemented by the Foundation for the Development of Performing Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan "Sforzando" in cooperation with the Union of Russian and Tatar Theater Workers, the Union of Composers of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, city", the Creative laboratory" Ugol ", the House of the acto named after M. Salimzhanov and the Plenipotentiary Representative Office of the Republic of Tatarstan in Moscow.
This is a long-term project, designed for the period from December 2017 to November 2018 and consisting of several stages. The participants of the laboratory were 3 composers, 3 stage designers, 3 playwrights and 3 directors from Tatarstan.
The first stage KazanOperaLab - educational - will be held at various venues in Kazan from 7 to 23 December. The participants will receive an intensive educational program of lectures and master classes. Classes will be held by key figures in the sphere of the arts of Russia: opera director Vasily Barkhatov; composers Alexander Manotskov, Svetlana Nesterova, Nikolay Popov, Vladimir Runnev and Elmir Nizamov; playwrights and screenwriters Evgeny Kazachkov and Mikhail Durnenkov; theatrical artists Zinoviy Margolin and Ksenia Peretrukhina; musicologists and music critics Larisa Barykina, Mikhail Muginshtein, Peter Pospelov and Dmitry Renansky. (You can find more detailed information about each of them below).
About the stages of the laboratory
As a result of the first stage KazanOperaLab, the participants will be divided into groups "composer - artist - playwright - director". It is in these creative teams that they will begin working on operas in the second stage of the laboratory, during which teams must create a draft version of the text and approve the composition of the performers of the future opera.
The third stage is composition. Teams will present a libretto and musical sketches. At the fourth stage it is necessary to "hand over" the final musical work. The rehearsals and the learning of parties will begin. Then there will be a show of sketches of performances, the so-called "works-in-progress", following which the expert council of the laboratory will recommend the best sketches for the production.
Finally, the final fifth stage: the premiere of operas created by young Tatarstan composers, directors, artists and playwrights within the framework of the KazanOperaLab art school. It is planned that the presentation of musical performances will take place not only in Kazan, but also in Moscow, and, possibly, even on European stages. According to organizers, the final of the laboratory will be held in autumn 2018.
Daniyar Sokolov, head of the Foundation for the Development of Performing Arts "Sforzando": "Over the years of the foundation's existence, we managed to experiment both with classical and modern opera productions. And they came to the conclusion that in Tatarstan it is necessary to educate a new generation of musicians who will deal with contemporary art, modern opera. In Kazan, there is experience in the implementation of modern productions both on the premises of the Conservatory and on the stage of the Opera and Ballet Theater. We want to open new, hitherto unknown to the general public young and talented guys who are able to surprise with a new look at opera. Therefore, we conceived KazanOperaLab. For the first stage of the laboratory, we tried to collect outstanding contemporary figures of theatrical, musical art of Russia, real stars. During the whole laboratory, during the coming year, we will also bring in both the vocal masters and instrumentalists who have a command of modern technologies in the performing arts. The laboratory aims to create absolutely new works of chamber opera. Education of new professionals. And, of course, we will do our best to make the result of the laboratory interesting to the viewer, so that the operas were not written "for the table", but sounded on the stage so that critics highly appreciated our first steps towards the goal. We hope that this is only the beginning and the project will be annual. "
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Teachers of laboratory-art school KazanOperaLab
Vasily Barkhatov
Opera director, repeated laureate of the National Prize "Golden Mask", artistic director of the opera company of the Mikhailovsky Theater (season 2013/2014), member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Culture and Art (2011-2012).
Alexander Manotskov
A composer who writes in many genres (from avant-garde to church music) and for a variety of compositions ranging from solo to symphony orchestra. The first works for the theater were written in collaboration with Andrei Moguchy and the Formal Theater. He also collaborated with theater directors Peter Shereshevsky and Kirill Serebrennikov.
Svetlana Nesterova
Composer. Herr music is constantly performed in Russia (for example, at the Mariinsky Theater) and abroad.
Elmir Nizamov
Composer. A graduate of the composer faculty of the Kazan State Conservatoire named after N. Zhiganov, the class of Professor A. Luppov.
Nikolai Popov
Composer, teacher, researcher, member of the Union of Composers of Russia, member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, researcher at the Center for Electroacoustic Music of the Moscow Conservatory, lecturer of the Department of History and Theory of Music, Russian University of Theatrical Art (GITIS).
Vladimir Rannev
Composer. His notes are published by Verlag Neue Musik Berlin; music is heard in Russia, Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands, USA, Finland, Switzerland, Japan. Author of a number of scientific articles on the theory of music, winner of numerous awards, awards, festivals.
Mikhail Durnenkov
The playwright, whose plays are translated into many languages and are successfully staged in Russia and Europe.
Evgeny Kazachkov
Script writer, playwright, teacher. Playwright of Gogol-Center. Since 2013 - art director and co-organizer of the festival of young dramaturgy "Lyubimovka."
Ksenia Peretrukhina
Artist, laureate of the national theater prize "Golden Mask"
Zinovy Margolin
Theatrical artist. Multiple winner of the National Prize "Golden Mask". He designed the Bolshoi Theater, the Mariinsky Theater, the St. Petersburg Ballet Theater directed by Boris Eifman, the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov Theater. Eugenia Vakhtangova. Among the works of the artist is the play "Nord-Ost" (Moscow, 2002) and many others.
Laris Barykina
Musicologist. Member of the jury of many Russian and international choreographic and theater competitions (Russia, Belarus, Poland, Monaco). Chairman of the Expert Council on the musical theater of the National Theater Award "Golden Mask".
Mikhail Mouginstein
Russian musicologist, opera historian and music critic. Honored Artist of Russia.
Peter Pospelov
Russian music critic, journalist and composer. Editor of the department of culture of the newspaper "Vedomosti". He founded and supports the Internet project "Contemporary Russian Composers".
Dmitry Renansky
Curator, theater critic, music critic. Chef-editor of the block "Theater" of the Internet portal Colta.ru, permanent author of the publishing house "Kommersant". Assistant to the artistic director of the "theater post".