Producing Projects in the Field of Culture and Arts

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Lectures are delivered by key professionals from Russian and international musical theatres.
Introduction to the profession: what an impresario actually does
Professional identity of the impresario in the sphere of music theatre
Historical and cultural foundations of the impresario's activities
Regulatory environment and contractual practices
Financial planning and budgeting for projects
Project management and logistical support
Marketing and promotion of musical and theatrical projects
Risk and crisis management
OPERA
BALLET

The History of Theatre

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  • Classicism. Mid- to late 18th century. The opera reform.
  • Revisiting classical antiquity: L’Orpheo. Mozart. The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute.
  • Romanticism. Early to mid-19th century.
  • Tchaikovsky. Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades.
  • Mussorgsky. Boris Godunov.
  • The history of opera in the 20th Century (Rimsky-Korsakov, Puccini, Dvořák, Debussy, R. Strauss, Janáček, Bartók, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich)
Introduction. The phenomenon of opera. Baroque. 17th century and early to mid-18th century
The History of World Opera
Mikhail
Muginshtein
Lecturer:
Musicologist, Historian and Theorist of Opera, Playwright, Critic

Author of the three-volume encyclopedia Chronicle of World Opera, books Studies in the History of Opera and The Theatre of Opera: From Work to Performance.
President of the Foundation for the Support of Opera Art Casta Diva, Founder and President of the Russian Opera Prize Casta Diva.
Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation, professor, compiler and editor of academic journals, author of publications in Russia and abroad.
  • The art of opera: names, heroes, plots
  • The opera artist: how they lived and served art in different eras
  • The emergence of directing in opera: principles, approaches and methods
  • Revolutionary avant-garde in the opera theatre
  • Soviet opera: new heroes
  • Opera and power
  • Russian classicism: a hallmark of the "great style"
  • Producer in opera: conquering heights
  • Opera theatres of modern-day Russia: trends and tendencies
  • Contemporary opera and its ups and downs
The History of Opera Theatre: From Concept to Implementation 
Dmitry Izotov 
Lecturer:
Theatre Reasearcher, Musical Theatre Historian, PhD in Art History, Executive Secretary of the Onegin National Opera Awards, Author of academic articles, Theatre Critic.
  • The emergence of ballet
  • Ballet in the 17th and early to mid-18th centuries
  • Self-identification of ballet as a choreographic theatre
  • Pre-romantic ballet
  • Ballet in the age of Romanticism
  • Ballet in the mid- to late 19th century
  • "New ballet": early 20th century
  • Avant-garde in ballet
  • Ballet in the 1930s: reinterpreting traditions
  • Ballet theatre in the 1950s and 1960s
  • English ballet in the mid- to late 20th century and early 21st century
  • French ballet in the mid- to late 20th and early 21st century
  • Ballet in other European countries
  • Russian ballet from the late 20th century to the early 21st century
  • Ballet in film and media: new formats
  • Contemporary Russian ballet
The History of Ballet Theatre
Andrei Galkin
Lecturer:
PhD in Art History, Senior Research Associate of the Theatre Sector.
COSTUMES
  • The origins of theatrical costume: from antiquity to Baroque
  • Costume as art: 19th and 20th centuries
  • Theatrical costume today: technologies and trends
The History of Theatrical Costume
Stanislav Lopatkin
Lecturer:
St Petersburg Designer and Artist, Founder of the Stas Lopatkin Fashion House, Historian of Theatrical Costume.
Eduard Shultz
Lecturer:
PhD in History, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Communication Technologies at MSLU
  • Features of the contemporary media environment
  • News production. Types and formats of media texts
  • Media as a partner and adversary in the theatrical business

Media Content in Performing Arts Projects

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History of Theatrical Diplomacy: Protocol and Etiquette

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Origins of theatrical protocol:
from classical antiquity to the 19th century
Modern etiquette for impresarios:
the digital age
Protocol in the 20th century:
from revolutions to globalisation
Lectures are delivered by key professionals from Russian and international musical theatres.
Vladimir Moiseyev
Lecturer:
Russian Вallet Artist, Ballet Master, Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation
  • The history of the origin and evolutiont of ballet dance
  • The history of the progressive development of ballet in Russia
  • Swan Lake: its origins, libretto and notable stage productions
  • The Sleeping Beauty: its origins libretto and notable stage productions
  • Giselle: its origins, libretto and notable stage productions
  • The Nutcracker: its origins, libretto and notable stage productions
  • Don Quixote: its origins, libretto and notable stage productions
  • Romeo and Juliet: its origins, libretto and notable stage productions
  • Spartacus: its origins, libretto and notable stage productions
  • Mime in ballet and opera productions
  • Movement directors of the Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theatres

Russian Ballet and Mime

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INTRODUCTION TO STAGE DESIGN
ORIGINS OF THEATRICAL SCENERY

Stage Design

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  • History of theatrical scenery art
  • Theatrical scenery
  • Stage design in various genres
  • The role of the scenic designer
  • Stage design and visual design
  • Technologies and innovations in stage design
  • Costumes and stage design
  • Spatial perception
  • Stage design for various venues
  • Environmental and sustainable stage design
Lectures are delivered by key professionals from Russian and international musical theatres.
  • The career path of a conductor: relevant education and experience in stage activities
  • The art of conducting
  • The conductor as a manager of an ensemble
  • Resolving legal, economic, administrative and psychological issues within the ensemble
  • Great Italian opera composers who also served as conductors
  • The Western European school of conducting during the Romantic era
  • The progressive development of the Russian school of conducting: Classicism
  • The development of the Russian school of conducting: early 20th century
  • The evolution of the Russian school of conducting: the avant-garde era
  • Conducting analysis of musical compositions
  • Bach's St Matthew Passion
  • Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances (an orchestral suite in three parts)
  • Director’s opera theatre: challenges and achievements
  • Site-specific operas and experimental forms
  • Working with singer-actors
  • Features of operatic acting
  • Specific features of the rehearsal process
  • Producing opera projects
  • Opera theatre as an institution
  • Management models: state, private, municipal theatres
  • Interaction with boards of trustees and sponsors
  • Planning an opera season
  • Shaping repertoire policy
  • Balancing between classics and modernity
  • Organising opera festivals
  • Features of festival producing
  • Case studies: The Salzburg Festival, The Golden Mask
  • International tours
  • Logistics, visa support, customs-related issues
  • Ins and outs of contracts with foreign venues
  • Promoting opera projects
  • Strategies for identification and engagement of a target audience for opera
  • Utilising digital tools for promotion

Opera
and Symphony Conducting

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Lectures are delivered by key professionals from Russian and international musical theatres.

Symphonic Music

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Module 1
The History and Theory of Symphonic Music
Module 3
Producing Symphonic Projects
Module 2
The Orchestra as an Institution
Lectures are delivered by key professionals from Russian and international theatres.
English language classes are held by top instructors from MSLU (Moscow State Linguistic University).
The course objective is to develop professional language competence in the field of theatre and producing, which will enable fluent interaction with foreign partners, essential negotiation skills, participation in international projects, and confidence communicating in the global cultural context.
All students take a placement test (aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages — CEFR) to be assigned to language groups.

English Language

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