Yuri Alexandrov (Stage Director)
From 1978 to the present day Yuri Alexandrov has worked as a stage director at the Mariinsky Theatre. His work is natural and varied, and for him there is no strict, canonical understanding of "opera"; he boldly adapts, analyses and experiments with classical opera texts. Moreover, his art is marked by a unique aesthetic, original thoughts, paradox and the unexpected. Following the thought process in his productions is both intriguing and complex, filled as it is with allegory and metaphysical ideas. The metaphor is one of the Maestro‘s main devices, exposing and embodying the internal, deeply spiritual, philosophical and poetic world of the director.
Productions he has staged at the Mariinsky Theatre have always proved significant events in St Petersburg‘s cultural life, among them Donizetti‘s Il campanello di notte and Don Pasquale, Gluck‘s The Queen of May, Banevich‘s The Story of Kai and Gerda, Mozart‘s Don Giovanni, Stravinsky‘s Mavra, Mozart‘s Le nozze di Figaro, Tchaikovsky‘s Mazepa, Prokofiev‘s Semyon Kotko (awarded Russia‘s highest theatre prize, the Golden Mask, in 1999 in the categories "Best opera production", "Best opera director", "Best opera designer" and "Best opera conductor") and Verdi‘s Aida, Don Carlo and Otello.
One of Russia‘s greatest musical theatre directors, Yuri Alexandrov has won a reputation as an innovator in opera. In 1987 he founded the Chamber Music Theatre. Initially conceived as a creative "laboratory", with time it developed into the professional St. Petersburg Chamber Opera Company, famed not only throughout Russia but abroad too.
An exceptional, truly gifted director and master of his art, Yuri Alexandrov is adept at discovering new talent. Today, student soloists of the St. Petersburg Chamber Opera Company perform at the world‘s leading opera houses, Vladimir Galuzin being just one such glittering example.
Yuri Alexandrov has staged over two hundred productions at opera houses throughout Russia and abroad, among them Offenbach‘s Les Contes d‘Hoffmann (Minsk), Verdi‘s Rigoletto and Aida, Borodin‘s Prince Igor, Mozart‘s Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail and Verdi‘s Il trovatore (Cheboksary), Cilea‘s Adrienne Lecouvreur (Chisinau), Prokofiev‘s Maddalena, Donizetti‘s L‘elisir d‘amore (Samara), Verdi‘s La traviata, Tchaikovsky‘s Eugene Onegin (Kazakhstan), Donizetti‘s L‘elisir d‘amore (Riga), Musorgsky‘s Khovanshchina (Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre), Mozart‘s Don Giovanni (Vilnius), Borodin‘s Prince Igor, Tchaikovsky‘s Eugene Onegin (Turkey), Tchaikovsky‘s Cherevichki and Eugene Onegin, Mozart‘s Don Giovanni (Italy) and Tchaikovsky‘s The Queen of Spades (USA).
One recent premiere directed by Maestro Alexandrov which set the opera world ablaze was Puccini‘s Turandot, which he staged in June 2003 at the Arena di Verona (Italy). It was an unprecedented event: for the first time ever the theatre had invited a Russian director to stage one of the classic Italian operas. Yuri Alexandrov and Valery Gergiev, another great maestro, will come together in August 2005 at the Arena for a production of the opera Boris Godunov on the world‘s largest stage.
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