Bolshoi Theatre • Alexei Frandetti

Director

Alexei
Frandetti

Alexei Frandetti

Born in Tashkent. Educated at the Tashkent State Higher School of National Dance and Choreography, studied at the Studio of Drama Art at Mark Weil’s theatre Ilkhom.

Subsequently studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School and in 2006 graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (master — Igor Yasulovich). In 2014 completed a summer course in directing at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London.

Has appeared in musicals at the Moscow Operetta Theatre, performing the roles of Mowgli in the eponymous production, the Prince (Cinderella), Porter (Ricochet).

In 2007-10 he was with the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre, where he performed lead roles in productions of Lend Me a Tenor! (Max), Chain Letter (the Count), Phèdre (Hippolyte).

In 2009 he performed the role of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at the Stanislavsky Drama Theatre (Moscow). In 2010/11 season he took on the role of Ramon in the musical Zorro at the Moscow Palace of Youth, also performed the role of Misha in Times Are Not Chosen at the Moscow’s Musical Theatre.

Since 2022 — has been chief director at Mark Zakharov’s Lenkom Theatre.

Awards

Russian National Theatre Award Golden Mask in the nomination Operetta/ Musical. Best Director for the productions An O. Henry Christmas, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stilyagy

2016, 2018, 2020

13th International Theatrical Star Public Audience Award in the category Best Art Response to the Pandemic for the Instagram musical My Long-Legged Grandfather

2020

Russian National Theatre Award Theatre’s Musical Heart in the nomination Best Lyrics (author/translation) for the production of Cabaret

2021

15th International Theatrical Star Public Audience Award in the nomination Best Director for Onegin

2022

WORKS AT THE BOLSHOI THEATRE

2017 — opera Il Viaggio a Reims (concert performance), staged concert The Guide to the Orchestra. Le Carnival des animaux
2018 — operetta Candide (staged concert performance)
2019 — opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, ballet Gabrielle Chanel by Y. Demutsky in the framework of Svetlana Zakharova’s evening MODANSE (librettist and director)
2023 — operas The Mandarin's Son and Le Rossignol by C. Cui and I. Stravinsky

WORKS AT THE LENKOM THEATRE

2023 — comedy The Route Is Calculated based on the play by the participants of the Hare Moan quartet (production artistic director), musical drama Mayakovsky by V. Vakulenko (Basta) and N. Simonova

WORKS AT THE MOSCOW OPERETTA THEATRE

2019 — musical Romeo vs Juliet ХХ years later by A. Ukupnik and K. Kavaleryan
2023 — operetta Die lustige Witwe

WORKS AT THE TAGANKA THEATRE

2017 — immersive musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by S. Sondheim and H. Wheeler
2019 — musical The Last Five Years by J. R. Brown
2021 — performance Onegin by A. Gladstone and V. Hille
2022 — performance Petya and Folk. Secrets of the Worlds by A. Zubets and N. Simonova, musical Not Love 5728 by J. R. Brown

WORKS AT THE ST PETERSBURG THEATRE OF MUSICAL COMEDY

2013 — performance-concert Broadway hits and more…
2014 — musical Jekyll & Hyde by F. Wildhorn and L. Bricusse (author of the Russian text)
2016 — operetta Das Land des Lächelns (author of the Russian text)
2023 — musical Frankenstein by R. Ignatiev and A. Frandetti (librettist and director)

WORKS AT THE SVERDLOVSK THEATRE OF MUSICAL COMEDY

2015 — musical drama Bernarda Alba by M. J. Lachiusa
2017 — operetta-comic The Mikado, or The Town of Titipu by A. Sullivan and W. Gilbert
2018 — semi-stage musical Evita by A. L. Webber and T. Rice (author of the Russian text and director), musical Casanova by K. Latsis and A. Frandetti (librettist and director)

WORKS AT OTHER THEATRES

2012 — musical Station “Dream” (Et Cetera Theatre), performance Ghost Stories (Palace on Yauza theatre and concert hall)
2013 — musicals Spring Awakening by D. Sheik and S. Sater (the Gogol Center), Love Story by H. Goodall and S. Clark (author of the Russian text and director; the North Ossetian Opera and Ballet Theatre, Vladikavkaz), solo music project of Valeria Lanskaya Workshop (Moscow Musical Theatre)
2014 — musicals Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by A. L. Webber and T. Rice (author of the Russian text and director; the St Petersburg State Children’s Musical Theatre Carambol), An O. Henry Christmas by P. Ekstrom (the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre)
2015 — opera Viva la mamma (the Krasnoyarsk Khvorostovsky State Opera and Ballet Theatre)
2016 — musical performance Pride and Prejudice by P. Ekstrom and J. Jory (author of the Russian text and director, the Moscow Art Theatre)
2019 — musicals Stilyagy (Hipsters) based on the script by Y. Korotkov Boogie on the Bones (the Theatre of Nations), Peter Pan by I. Yefremov, E. Zagot, A. Antonov and A. Sanin, L. Derbenyov, D. Aksyonova (Moscow Regional State Theatre for Young Audiences), opera Rigoletto (the Ekaterinburg State Opera and Ballet Theatre)
2021 — opera Benvenuto Cellini (the Mariinsky Theatre), musicals Cabaret by J. Kander and Joe Masteroff (the Novosibirsk Youth Theatre Globus), Dear Mr. Smith by P. Gordon and G. Caird (the State Drama Theatre Comedian’s Shelter, St Petersburg)
2022 — musicals Sugar by J. Styne and P. Stone (the Vakhtangov Theatre), The Ordinary Miracle by Y. Kim and G. Gladkov (the Bryantsev Theatre for Young Audiences, St Petersburg), A Christmas Story by A. Rubtsov and A. Frandetti (librettist and director; the Obraztsov Central State Academic Puppet Theatre)
2023 — musicals Mowgli by V. Stashinsky (Arkady Raikin Variety Theatre, St Petersburg), Krechinsky’s Wedding by A. Kolker and K. Ryzhov (the State Academic Maly Theatre)

Together with the company Stage Entertainment, realised the staging of ice arena shows Aladdin and the Lord of Fire (2014) and Sinbad and Princess Anna (2015) in Moscow. Released New Year Musical. Video Show in the frameworks of the project by Creative Lab STAIRWAY (2020/21). Staged a literary and musical composition Dostoevsky and Music as part of the festival Happy Dostoyevsky at the State Zaraisky Kremlin Museum and Nature Reserve (2021), musical and interactive show A Dream City in the framework of the project Fanefon. City of Dreams at the Moscow Manege (2022).

Stage Director of the first Instagram musical in Russia My Long-Legged Grandfather by P. Gordon and J. Caird in the social network Instagram (2020). Artistic Director of the project Bolshoi Musical on the Russia-Cultura TV channel and author of the project Difficult easy genre on the Promotion TV channel (2021/22).

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»

Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — TBank

Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM