Dmitry Alexandrovitch Bertman (Russian

Russian language

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: Дмитрий Александрович Бертман, born 31 October 1967) is a Russia

Russia

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n theatre and opera director and the founder and artistic director of Helikon Opera

Helikon Opera

Helikon Opera is a Russian opera company based in Moscow, specializing in unconventional productions. Their main performing base is the 250 seat Mayakovsky Theater, the former ballroom in the palace of the Shakhovskoi-Glebov-Streshneva family who were patrons of the arts in 19th century Moscow...

 in Moscow

Moscow

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Biography

Bertman was born in Moscow, the son of Alexander Bertman and Ludmila Zhumaeva. He graduated from Russian Academy of Theatre Arts where he studied under
Georgy Ansimov and began his career directing in theatres in Moscow, Tver

Tver

Tver is a city and the administrative center of Tver Oblast, Russia. Population: 403,726 ; 408,903 ;...

, Odessa

Odessa

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 and Syktyvkar

Syktyvkar

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. In 1990 Bertman founded Helikon Opera and remains its artistic director.

He teaches at both the Moscow State Conservatory and the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts where he has been artistic director of the academy's musical theatre workshop from 1996 and Head of the Music Theatre Department from 2003. Since 1994, Berman has also been a lecturer at the Berne Opera studio in Switzerland.

Between 1997 and 2000 Dmitry Bertman received the Golden Mask

Golden Mask

The Golden Mask is a Russian theatre festival and the National Theatre Award established in 1994 by the Theatre Union of Russia. The award is given to productions in all genres of theatre art: drama, opera, ballet, operetta and musical, and puppet theatre. It presents the most significant...

 Award (Best Stage Director) for his productions of Carmen

Carmen

Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...

, The Tsar's Bride

The Tsar's Bride (opera)

The Tsar's Bride is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the composer's tenth opera. The libretto, by Il’ya Tyumenev, is based on the drama of the same name by Lev Mey. Mey's play was first suggested to the composer as an opera subject in 1868 by Mily Balakirev...

and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera)

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District is an opera in four acts by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Op.29. The libretto was written by Alexander Preis and the composer, and is based on the story Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov. The opera is sometimes referred to informally as Lady Macbeth...

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External links

• Dmitry Bertman (Director) on bolshoimoscow.com