Opera Aperta

Opera Aperta is a contemporary opera laboratory based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Together, they explore new ways in contemporary music and composition, as well as instrumental theatre, media operas, and performative and interdisciplinary art forms.

Opera Aperta was founded in 2020 by Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko, whose artistic collaboration began in 2007. Among their important milestones is the co-founding of the international festival Porto Franko, which developed into one of the largest events for performing and contemporary arts in Ukraine between 2016 and 2018. From 2015 to 2020, Grygoriv and Razumeiko also worked as composers, playwrights, performers and artistic directors of the NOVA OPERA ensemble.

During this time, they collaborated with director Vlad Troitskyi to create a biblical opera trilogy: the requiem opera IYOV (2015), the circus opera Babylon (2016) and the ballet opera ARK (2017). Their diverse portfolio also includes synthetic music theatre works such as the sound opera Impossibilities with Taras Prokhasko, and the trap opera Wozzeck with the poet Yuri Izdryk.

The aim of Opera Aperta is to establish a modern opera house in Kyiv that will serve as a multidisciplinary platform for contemporary and baroque opera, dance theatre and experimental stage forms.