IGOR KONYUKHOV
Director Producer Writer
NEW WORLD FOR FINE ARTS
opera Die Fledermaus
March 9-10 @ Lehman Theater , MDC MIAMI
Igor Konyukhov is a Russian born director, writer, and choreographer based in USA. Igor started out as a physicist earning Master of Science degree from Moscow State University, Russia. He continued at University of Connecticut studying for PHD in Nuclear Physics. His passion for theatre led him directing and choreography. He moved to NYC where he earned an MFA at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
BIOGRAPHY
DIE FLEDERMAUS
J.Strauss
Director and Costume Design - Igor Konyukhov
Set Design - Sam Transleau
Lighting - Steven Niece
NEW WORLD SCHOOL of the ARTS
March 9-10, 2019
BLACK SQUARE
Idea - Igor Konyukhov
Music - Ilya Demutsky
Libretto -Maslova/Konyukhov
Semi-staged performance
November 27-30, 2018
Moscow, Russia
...the opera is a two-act futuristic tragicomedy that “mixes intellectual traditions of Russian avant-garde and fast pacing style of an action thriller.”
David Salazar for Operawire, November 2018
“ Black Square is an English-language, avant-garde opera, created first and foremost for American audiences: not a museum piece but a new work of theatre, intended to bring something of Kruchenykh and Malevich to life today, simultaneously moving and delighting contemporary audiences.”
Jessica Hinds-Bond, The Theatre Times, December 2017
GOLDEN COCKEREL
N.Rimsky-Korsakov
Director - Igor Konyukhov
Costume Design - Olga Maslova
Set Design - Z.Crane/I.Konyukhov
Lighting Design - Greg Mitchel
Critic's nomination for
Best Costume Design 2017
"Konyukhov’s direction was unafraid to go for broad, outrageous physical comedy with a fine appreciation for bad taste. Imagine Benny Hill doing Russian fairy tales and you’ll get the idea. The overall style aesthetic can be described as Brighton Beach Russian nightclub meets Diaghilev on LSD in a dark alley. It was all too much and shouldn’t have worked – but somehow it did."
Gay City News, (June 2017)
"This might be the first must-see opera production of the Trump era."
Forbes (April 2017)
"We were constantly astonished by the originality which is difficult to describe”
Voce di Meche (May 2017)
BORIS GODUNOV (2016)
M.Mussorgsky
Director - Igor Konyukhov
Costume Design - Olga Maslova
Set Design - Julian Hoyos
Lighting Design - Greg Mitchel
DEMON (2016)
M.Lermontov
Director - Igor Konyukhov
Costume/Set Design - Olga Maslova
Lighting Design - Igor Konyukhov
IOLANTA
P.Tchaikovsky
Director - Igor Konyukhov
Costume Design - Olga Maslova
Set Design - I.Konyukhov
Lighting Design - Greg Mitchel
"New Opera NYC made their visit to Fort Mason’s Cowell Theater pay off big time on Friday’s opening night, turning Tchaikovsky’s one-act opera Iolanta into the musical equivalent of a highlight reel...It was left to Tchaikovsky’s blind innocent and the men swirling around her to lift this New Opera NYC night at the Cowell skyward. "
San Francisco Classical Voice (April 2016)
