| Yulia Senyukova, Chief Choirmaster, graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory in 2001 with a degree in choral conducting. In 1999–2001, she was a choirmaster of Tevlin’s Chamber Choir and, simultaneously, she worked for the Young Actor Musical Theatre of Moscow. In 2001–2003, she acted as a choirmaster of the Natalia Sats Musical Theatre for Children.Yulia Senyukova joined the Novaya Opera in October 2003. She has led the choir in preparing Verdi’s Quattro Pezzi Sacri, a concert of Theodorakis’s compositions, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Fauré’s Requiem, Britten’s War Requiem, Puccini’s mass Gloria, Jenkins’s Adiemus, Prokofiev’s cantata Alexander Nevsky, Shostakovich’s Stepan Razin's Execution, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, Webber's Requiem, Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion (the Russian premiere)and operas in concert: Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, Verdi’s Aida, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Dvorak’s The Mermaid, Puccini’s Il Tabarro, and Ibert’s Persee et Andromede. Yulia Senyukova is a choirmaster in the following productions: Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia and Cenerentola, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Verdi’s Nabucco, Wagner’s Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde, Strauss’s Capriccio, Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette and Faust, Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. An Opera, Nyman and Purcell's Dido, Prokofiev’s Maddalena and Shostakovich’s The Gamblers, Weinberg’s The Passenger, Martynov's The School for Wives. Yulia trains young choral artists to be able to perform in current productions. Yulia Senyukova devotes much of her time to the Chamber Choir of the Novaya Opera. In this “choral laboratory” Yulia Senyukova and her colleagues, director Aleksey Veiro and designer Etel Ioshpa, have staged experimental choral productions: The Ebony (based on spirituals), The Ivory (based on Renaissance secular music) and Shatkovskaya-Eisenberg's choral opera The Red (Dreams of the Deceased about Spain), which make a triptych studying people who are different. Since 2017 Yulia has been the Novaya Opera's Chief Choirmaster. ProductionsStravinsky. Babel (Mystery play) — Choirmaster The Ebony (Chamber Choir Concert) — Choirmaster The Ivory (Chamber Choir Concert) — Choirmaster The Red Tatiana Shatkovskaya-Eisenberg — Choirmaster Michael Nyman and Henry Purcell's DIDO — Choirmaster Verdi's Aida — Choirmaster Gounod's Faust — Choirmaster Flotow's Marta, oder der Markt zu Richmond (in concert) – Choirmaster
Schnittke's Concerto for Choir to Verses by Gregory of Narek (A Chamber choir performance) – Conductor, Choirmaster
Purcell's The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island (A Chamber Choir performance) – Conductor, Choirmaster
Bach's Messe in H-moll – Choirmaster
Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah (in concert) – Choirmaster Discography | On 8 December 2016, artists of the Novaya Opera Theatre performed Gustav Holst’s chamber opera Savitri at the British Ambassador Residence in Moscow, one hundred years after the opera’s London premiere… Learn more… |
