Today we present to you the Artistic Director of our project, Yuri Konstantinovich Laptev.
People’s Artist of Russia, Professor, Head of the Department of Musical Theatre Direction at the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, Professor and Head of the Acting and Directing Workshop at GITIS.
Since 1988 Yuri Konstantinovich has been a director and soloist with the opera company of the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre (Mariinsky Theatre).
Yuri Konstantinovich has performed on such famous stages around the world as the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, the Rome Opera, La Scala, the Brussels Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic. His repertoire includes more than thirty opera roles.
As a director, Yuri has staged the following productions: Khovanshchina at the La Scala Theatre (Milan), Babi Riot at the St Petersburg Musical Comedy Theatre, Prince Igor at the Yekaterinburg State Opera and Ballet Theatre and many others.
Having become a guest director of the Donetsk Opera Theatre (Donbass Opera) in 2015, Yuri Konstantinovich is one of the first Russian artists who started permanent creative cooperation with cultural institutions of the Donetsk People’s Republic.