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Opera "The Homeland of Electricity"
Voronezh State Opera and Ballet Theater
2016
Author: Andrey Platonov,
Libretto and Music: Gleb Sedelnikov
Director: Mikhail Bychkov
Costume designer: Julia Vetrova
"The Homeland of Electricity" was first performed at the opening of the VII International Platonov Arts Festival; it was the world premiere and took place on June 2, 2017.
This is a very important project for me, my first career work on an opera and my first nomination for the Russian national theater award "Golden Mask" in the category "Best work of a costume designer in musical theater."
"The Homeland of Electricity" is the first and only opera written based on the works of the writer Andrei Platonov.
I really like the figurative metaphorical series in Platonov's works, and I was especially interested in composing the characters that he describes in great detail on the pages of his books. I painted costumes in long horizontal canvases, little people who then populated the world we created on stage. I had a number of tasks on several topics:
1. Village Rogachevka. I drew the villagers of this place, tried to come up with a stylized approach to depicting the characters of the choir, and also highlight the soloists.
2. Garden. The atmosphere of an autumn evening around the fire. Villagers on vacation, when nothing has happened yet, "the calm before the storm."
3. Construction of a power plant. My task was to come up with a working uniform for the soloists and elements of a working uniform for the choir.
4. Solemn meeting. A turning point in the opera, after which events inevitably lead to disaster. Here, disturbing geometric elements are already being added to the costumes.
5. Fire at the Rogachevka power plant. The final. Dressing up, global change of costumes. Poor, burnt villagers. Tragedy.
I managed to find an interesting style in the depiction of costumes, a combination of realism and abstractionism (suprematism), this helped me convey how I feel about the characters of Andrei Platonov and the music that Gleb Sedelnikov wrote for the opera.
2016
Author: Andrey Platonov,
Libretto and Music: Gleb Sedelnikov
Director: Mikhail Bychkov
Costume designer: Julia Vetrova
"The Homeland of Electricity" was first performed at the opening of the VII International Platonov Arts Festival; it was the world premiere and took place on June 2, 2017.
This is a very important project for me, my first career work on an opera and my first nomination for the Russian national theater award "Golden Mask" in the category "Best work of a costume designer in musical theater."
"The Homeland of Electricity" is the first and only opera written based on the works of the writer Andrei Platonov.
I really like the figurative metaphorical series in Platonov's works, and I was especially interested in composing the characters that he describes in great detail on the pages of his books. I painted costumes in long horizontal canvases, little people who then populated the world we created on stage. I had a number of tasks on several topics:
1. Village Rogachevka. I drew the villagers of this place, tried to come up with a stylized approach to depicting the characters of the choir, and also highlight the soloists.
2. Garden. The atmosphere of an autumn evening around the fire. Villagers on vacation, when nothing has happened yet, "the calm before the storm."
3. Construction of a power plant. My task was to come up with a working uniform for the soloists and elements of a working uniform for the choir.
4. Solemn meeting. A turning point in the opera, after which events inevitably lead to disaster. Here, disturbing geometric elements are already being added to the costumes.
5. Fire at the Rogachevka power plant. The final. Dressing up, global change of costumes. Poor, burnt villagers. Tragedy.
I managed to find an interesting style in the depiction of costumes, a combination of realism and abstractionism (suprematism), this helped me convey how I feel about the characters of Andrei Platonov and the music that Gleb Sedelnikov wrote for the opera.
