Alexey Veiro, Theatre Stage Director, Head of the Stage Direction Department, graduated from the Russian Academy of Dramatic Arts (RATI-GITIS) as an actor of musical theatre (Professor Georgy Ansimov’s class) and as a drama director (Professor Anatoly Vasiliev’s class).
He worked as an actor in the Musical End Theatre of Moscow and as a choir artist in Anatoly Vasiliev’s theatre “School of Modern Dramatic Art”. Aleksey taught acting in the Gerasimov All-Russia State Institute of Cinematography. He organized the work of a theatre studio. In 2004, he was appointed an assistant stage director at the Novaya Opera Theatre, where he has worked on the following productions: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, “O Mozart! Mozart…”, Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Bellini’s Norma, Verdi’s Nabucco, Wagner’s Lohengrin, Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Offenbach’s A Dinner Party with Italians (M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le…). In 2012, Aleksey became a stage director of the Novaya Opera. He has directed the productions of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Shostakovich’s The Gamblers and Prokofiev’s Maddalena, the musical divertissement OPERAMANIA, the concert of Russian choir music Inverted Perspective,the chamber concert programmes Around Wagner, This is Pure Bacchus, Bach’s Birth Anniversary and some others. In recent years Aleksey Veiro has devoted much of his time to work with the Chamber Choir of the Novaya Opera (choirmaster Yulia Senyukova), for which he has directed the productions The Ebony (spirituals music), The Ivory (Renaissance music) and The Red (a choral opera based on Spain and Ladino songs). They are a triptych studying people that are different. He directed the productions of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Le nozze di Figaro in Vladivostok in 2009 and 2011 respectively (joint Russian-German projects). He staged the Russian premiere of Pergolesi’s Livietta e Tracollo for the Sheremetiev Seasons in Ostankino in 2010. Aleksey Veiro is one of the initiators and organizers of The Different Choral Music Festival, which took place at Novaya Opera in 2016 for the first time. In 2013–2015 he was deputy director for artistic matters. Since 2015 he has been Head of the Stage Direction Department. Roles performed at the Novaya OperaProductionsOperaMania (Musical divertissement ) — Stage Director Stravinsky. Babel (Mystery play) — Stage Director The Ebony (Chamber Choir Concert) — Stage Director The Ivory (Chamber Choir Concert) — Stage Director The Red Tatiana Shatkovskaya-Eisenberg — Stage Director Verdi's Aida — Stage Director | 
