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Inga Kalna
Soprano Inga Kalna was born in Riga.
Studied voice and musicology at the Music
Academy of her native Riga, Latvia, and made
her debut as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. Then
she became a soloist of the Latvian National
Opera, where she subsequently was heard as
Puccini’s Mimì and Liu, Verdi’s Gilda and
Violetta, Donizetti’s Lucia, and Handel’s
Alcina, twice winning the Latvian Theater
Award and the Great Music Award of Latvia
three times. Singing teachers: Ludmila Brown
(Riga, Vancouver), Irina Gavrilovici (Vienna),
Joy Mammen (London).
Although already an experienced
singer, she decided to continue her education
in 1997 at London’s Royal Academy of Music (a winner of The Goldberg Operatic
Prize – UK, 1997, Bruce Millar-Gulliver Memorial Trust Award – UK, 1999, DipRAM)
and two years later became a member of the International Opera Studio of the
Hamburg Staatsoper.
Since 2001 she has been a member of the parent company, appearing as
Olympia and Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Adina in L’elisir d’amore, Xenia
in Boris Godunov, and Violetta in La traviata, to name a few. During the recently
concluded Hamburg season she was Donna Fiorilla (Il turco in Italia), Regina (Mathis
der Maler), and Ilia in Idomeneo.
Guest appearances have brought her to the Dresden Music Festival, the
Innsbruck Early Music Festival, the Netherlands Opera, and Flemish Opera, the
Munich Festival, the Salzburg Festival. She frequently appears under the baton of
René Jacobs, most recently in Handel’s Rinaldo and Francesco Conti’s Don
Chisciotte in Sierra Morena.
IRINA
LITCHAGINA (ИРИНА ЛЫЧАГИНА)
107140, Russia, Moscow, Rusakovskaya str., 4,85.
CURRICULUM VITAE
TRAINING
1991 —
Russian Academy of Theatre Art ,Musical
Theatre Department ,
1995
Musical Theatre Direction , course of V. Miller .
1992 —
Choreographical Composition workshop ,
conducted by Stuart
Houdse and Marta Myers .
1993 —
« SURVIVAL EUROPE » , a workshop for professional dancers
and choreographers , Newcastle , Great Britain , classes of Graham
Fletcher , Chris Hall , Bernard Glandier , Pascal Gravat , Vali Subhaja ,
Simone Clifford .
1997 —
RATI ( GITIS ) post — graduate — course of Musical Theatre Direction
,
supervised by A . Titel .
1991 – 2005 – assistant professor, Russian Academy of Theatre Arts
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTING EXPERIENCE
1993 —
1993 —
1995 —
1997 —
« LA SERVA PADRONA » opera by G.B. Pergolesi,
« HELICON OPERA » Theatre , Moscow .
« I PAGLIACCI » opera by R. Leoncavallo ,
« HELICON OPERA » Theatre , Moscow .
« THE BLUEBEARD CASTLE » opera by B. Bartoc ,
Russian Academy of Theatre Art ( GITIS ) .
« LA SERVA PADRONA » opera by G.B. Pergolesi ,RATI ( GITIS ).
« THE THEATRE’S DIRECTOR » opera by W.A. Mozart ,
RATI ( GITIS ) .
1999 - «ALEKO» S. RACKHMANINOV,
«MAVRA» I. STRAVINSKY, A.S. PUSHKIN MUSEUM, Moscow
2001 – «IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETTO» D. CIMAROSA, RATI (GITIS), Moscow.
2002 – «WHIGHT JAZZ FOR TWO PIERROTS» by the play of E. Rostand “ TWO
PIERROTS OR THE WHIGHT SUPPER” the Theter of Nations, Moscow.
2003 – «IL BARBIER DI SEVIGLIA», G. Rossini, renovation after the performance of
K. Stanislavsky, Stanislavsky Musical Theatre (MAMT), Moscow
2004 – «the PROVINCIAL LADY’S ALBOOM» after the play of N. Gogol “The
Inspector General”, The Theatre if Nations, Moscow.
2005\2006 – «Мoscow, Cheremushky» D. Shostakovitch, Stanislavsky Musical
Theatre, Moscow.
4 nominations for the National Theatre Premium “The Golden Mask”, among them –
“Best Direction” and “Best Performance”
2006\2007 – «The Inspector General. After the Comedy. Opera”, R. Lvovitch/ I.
Lytchagina,
The Theatre of Nations, Moscow, “The Open Stage” project.
2008- «The Holidays of the President», I. Kositsin, T. Chertova, “Gosconcert
Production», Moscow
2008/2009 – «Danish Hamlet. Russian Comedy», V. Kobeckin ( with A. Titel),
Stanislavsky Musical Theatre, Moscow, Natinal Theatre Premium “Golden Mask” –
“Best Performance”.
2009/2010 – “Il Barbier di Seviglia”, G. Rossini (with A. Titel) Stanislavsky Musical
Theatre, Moscow
PROFESSIONAL CHOREOGRAPHICAL EXPERIENCE
1991 —
1993 —
1994
1995 —
1996 —
1997 —
1998 —
worked as a choreographer at the Theatre of Ephim Shifrin.
worked as a choreographer with the participants of the TV-show
«JALTA-93».
worked as a choreographer at the Cabaret — Theatre
«SEVEN FRIDAYS»,Moscow,the Central House of Art’s Workers.
worked as a choreographer at the « HELICON OPERA » Theatre ,
Moscow ( « LA SERVA PADRONA » , « I PAGLIACCI » ) .
« PLAYING THE « CATS » , RATI ( GITIS ) .
« THE THREEPENNY OPERA » , RATI ( GITIS ) .
« LA SERVA PADRONA » , « THE THEATRE’S DIRECTOR » ,
« THAT , WHO’S THE BLESSED » , « HOW DOES THE WORLD
CHANGED » , RATI ( GITIS ) / « ESPACE MALRO » ( FRANCE ) .
« THE STAR OF THE CHRISTMAS » , « THE WORLD » Young Actors
Theatre Group , Moscow .
« THE VOYAGE ON THE EDGE » , The Satire Theatre,Moscow.
A Benefis of the Actresses of Vackhtangov Theatre,Moscow.
1999 - «Vertinsky », Tsaritsino Theatre, Moscow.
1999 - «SALIERI FOREVER», A. Pushkin, Ermolova’s Theatre, Moscow.
2000 - «IL BARBIER DI SEVIGLIA», Bomarchet, RAMT, Moscow.
2001 – “ The Steel”, Malaya Bronnaya Theatre, Moscow
- “ The Christmass story with the Hosts” by Ch. Dickens, Young Spectators
Theater,
Volgograd.
2003 - “The Viy” N. Gogol, The Pushckin Theatre, Moscow
2004 - “ Three Tall Women”, Albee, Mayackovsky Theatre, Moscow
2008 – “ The Cow of the King”, Titova, Starotorgzsky, “Et Cetera” Theatre, Moscow.
2000- 2011 – Stanislavsky Musical Theatre, Moscow:
“The Betrothal at the Abbey”, S. Prokofiev
“The Bat”, I. Strauss
“Madama Butterfly”, Puccini
“Eugeny Onegin” P. Tchaickovsky
“The Night of May” N. Rymsky-Korsackov
“Moscow. Cheremushcky”, D. Shostackovitch
“La Traviata”, G. Verdi
“The Tales of Goffmann”. Offenbach
and others
TRANSLATIONS
“SWEENY TODD”, S. Sondhime, RATI, Moscow
“The Producers” , M. Brooks, “Et Cetera” Theatre, Moscow.
Besides, in 2003- 2011 wrote several opera librettos and stage adaptations for
different theatres.
Leah Hausman
Chorégraphe et metteur en scène / Royaume-Uni
Diplômée de danse et d’art dramatique à New York et à Paris où elle étudie à l’École
Jacques Lecoq, Leah Hausman travaille de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique en tant que
chorégraphe et collaboratrice à la mise en scène. Elle participe à de nombreuses
productions pour de grands festivals et maisons d’opéra, tels que le Covent Garden
de Londres (Les Troyens, Berlioz ; Les Noces de Figaro et La Flûte enchantée,
Mozart ; Elektra, Strauss ; Le Turc en Italie, Rossini ; Rigoletto et Aida, Verdi), le
Festival de Glyndebourne (L’Élixir d’amour, Donizetti ; Gianni Schicchi et La
Bohème, Puccini), l’English National Opera, l’Opéra de Copenhague, l’Opéra de
Brême, le Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (La Clémence de Titus, Mozart ; La Damnation
de Faust, Berlioz), l’Opéra lyrique de Chicago (Billy Budd, Britten), l’Opéra de San
Francisco et le Metropolitan Opera de New York (Il Trovatore, Verdi ; Maria Stuarda,
Donizetti). Elle collabore avec des compagnies d’opéra en Grande-Bretagne, et
dirige les reprises de grandes productions à Rome, San Francisco, Oslo, Palerme,
ainsi qu’à l’English National Opera et au Covent Garden de Londres. Au théâtre, ses
récents engagements l’amènent à aborder le répertoire shakespearien, notamment
avec la Royal Shakespeare Company (Roméo et Juliette, La Nuit des rois, Comme il
vous plaira) mais aussi avec le Goodman Theatre de Chicago. Elle travaille
également avec la compagnie Complicite de Simon McBurney et pour la chaîne de
télévision britannique Channel 4. Collaboratrice régulière du metteur en scène Neil
Bartlett, ses créations sont jouées dans de nombreux théâtres londoniens tels que le
Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, le Royal Court Theatre et le National Theatre. Elle
enseigne par ailleurs l’expression corporelle à des chanteurs et acteurs dans la
plupart des académies londoniennes, et travaille auprès de jeunes artistes venus du
monde entier. Ses projets à venir incluent Rusalka de Dvořák à l’Opéra lyrique de
Chicago, ainsi qu’une nouvelle production à l’English National Opera.