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Opera-circus "BABYLON"
Music by Roman Grygoriv, Illia Razumeiko
Directed by Vlad Troitskyi
Premiere: September 17, 2016, GOGOLFEST,Kyiv
Opera-circus "BABYLON" is a story of the birth and death of metaphoric "tower". It is a Biblical
legend about the conflict between man and God, extrapolated on urban tragedy of the modern
city.
A contrasting mix of musical styles transmits mixing of languages and peoples: avant-garde and
pseudo-baroque, trip-hop and rock, shamanic folk and electronic techno, allusions on Italian opera
and French chanson.
A variety of vocal techniques (classical singing, throat singing, jazz improvisation, folk vocal) is
mixed with bizarre instruments: prepared piano, untuned piano, toy piano, electric guitar, string
instruments with a special tuning system, vibraphone, rock drum set, and kalimba.
The structure of opera-circus is a parody on classic opera of the XIX century, which includes
the overture, alternating pathetic choral and dance scenes, arias, duets, and ensembles.
During the performance actors, singers and instrumentalists are moving in the concert hall.
Cast:
Maryana Golovko (soprano)
Anna Marych (soprano)
Andrey Koshman (baritone)
Ruslan Kirsh (baritone)
Yevgeniy Rakhmanin (bass)
Janna Marchynskaya (cello, bas-guitar)
Andrey Nadolskiy (percussion)
Roman Grygoriv(conductor, piano, guitar, vibraphone, bass)
Illia Razumeiko (grandpiano, toy piano,guitar,percussion)
4 actors
Stage live visual performance by Aliona Ovramenko
BABYLON`S STAGED GROUP
Vlad Troitskyi
a stage-director, director and art
director of DAK( Centre of
Contemporary Arts, the founder of
ethno-chaos band DakhaBrakha .
Vlad Troitskyi was born in Ulan-Ude,
Russia,
. (e graduated at the
Radio Technician faculty of Kiev
Polytechnic )nstitute in
, and
finished post-graduate course at Kiev
Polytechnic )nstitute in
. )n
he
received his diploma in acting and
directing at the Russian Theatre Art
Academy in Moscow. Troitskyi is the
founder, director and art director of
DAK( Centre of Contemporary Arts,
where he directed more than
performances. )n
he founded the
DakhaBrakha ethno-chaos band, and
in
he launched an audio-visualtheatre-literature-philosophic art
project: Festival of Contemporary Art
"GogolFest". (e is also founder of the
Dakh Daughters Band. Recently in
(ungary Vlad Troitskyi directed opera
"Die Tote Stadt" "The Dead City" by
Erich Wolfgang Korngold. )n
he
staged the improvisation opera
"Coriolanus" based on Shakespeare's
tragedy.
BABYLON`S STAGED GROUP
Roman Grygoriv
a gifted Ukrainian composer, conductor
and author of chamber, vocal, symphonic
works, and theatrical music.
Roman Grygoriv was born in
in )vanoFrankivsk, Ukraine. (e continues
postgraduate studies at the National Music
Academy master degree in composition –
A. Gavrylets’ class . As well, he is the
chairman of the artistic foundation
PORTO FRANKO , founder and director
of international festivals, such as: the Frank
Opera fest, Porto Franko Ukraine , MOZART
China , and the Music from
Europe in
China . Although he had
also been an artistic manager of
international festivals, including the O-Fest
Ukraine .
Since
, Roman has worked as a
composer and artist of the National
Presidential Orchestra of Ukraine. And
since
, has been a member of the
National Union of Composers of Ukraine.
)n
, together with composer )lya
Razumeyko, they created opera-requiem
)YOV for the international festival
GogolFest
director - Vlad Troitskyi .
BABYLON`S STAGED GROUP
)llia Razumeiko
a Ukrainian composer, author of
chamber, vocal, symphonic works.
)llia Razumeiko was born in
in
Zaporozhia, Ukraine. )n
, he
graduated from Zaporozhia Music
College class of music theory . )n
, he studied at the Kiev
Conservatory prof. A. Gavrylets' composition class and through
to
, he worked at the National Theatre
of Operetta of Ukraine. )n
through
, he studied at the Vienna
Conservatory in the class of instrumental
composition prof. Martin Lihtfus . Since
, he has been studying
electroacoustic composition in the class
of prof. Karlheinz Esel. Together, with
composer Roman Grygoriv, they
organized international festivals, such as
the, Frank Opera fest, Porto Franko
)vano-Frankivsk, Ukraine , O-FestKyiv, Ukraine , MOZ-ART
Shenzhen, China , )nterior )) Vienna,
Austria , and the Music from Europe in
(arbin, China . )n
, they had
also created an opera-requiem ")YOV"
for the V))) )nternational multidisciplinary
festival of contemporary art GogolFest
.
BABYLON’S CAST