Kapitolina Tcvetkova - Public Lecture (In English)

"My path to rethinking musical theatre and trans-disciplinary forms started after years of studying as a flutist, musical theory, and musical theatre at the conservatory (opera stage directing). I started working in opera houses across Europe and Russia (as assistant director, associate, and movement director mainly for Daniel Finzi Pasca, David Hermann, Kattie Mitchel, and Dimitri Cherniakov) and quite quickly I got into a sort of opera-existential crisis... Because my beloved art form - opera - seemed just a museographic dead form, replaying its life in the interpretative loop, rarely giving it contemporary existence, as well as losing its creative power. So I had to run away. Run as far as I could to find a place for that kind of opera I dreamed of.

I rediscovered the new path toward opera through fine arts after years of visual arts studies in France and using a more research-like experimental approach.…