Tatyana Belova
Татьяна Белова
Opera critic, theatre scholar, head of the editorial department at the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum
She graduated from the course of Vadim Gaevsky at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU). Author of scholarly publications on opera, participant in conferences (Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, Tchaikovsky State House-Museum in Klin, State Institute for Art Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities).
Guest lecturer (Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University, Gnessin Russian Academy of Music). Gives public lectures on opera theatre.
From 1998 to 2000, she was head of the literary department and press secretary of the Helikon-Opera Moscow music theatre. From 2001 to 2025 she headed the literary and publishing department at the Bolshoi Theatre. From 2011 to 2020 – consultant for the project "The Met: Live in HD" opera broadcasts in cinemas.
Since 1995, she has been publishing as a music and theatre critic in mass media and professional journals ("Kommersant", "Screen and Stage", "Music Review", "Music Academy", "Musical Life", "Bolshoi Theatre", "Theatre"). Author of articles in the collections "How to Watch Opera", "The Most Famous Opera Productions", "Intendants. Dramatists", "Opera Conductors 2" (Agraf, Kraft+ publishers). Author of the book "Giacomo Puccini: Hostage of Melodrama" (2024).
Dramaturg and co-curator of projects of the Bolshoi Theatre's Young Opera Program: "Cantatas Lab" (2018) and "Cantatas. Myth" (2021). Dramaturg of the physical theatre production "(Not) Russian Poets" (director and choreographer Ksenia Malinina, Perm Academic Theatre-Theatre, 2025), of the new production of the opera "Idomeneo" (director Roman Kocherzhevsky, Mariinsky Theatre, 2026), and of the ballet "The Nutcracker. Unfairytale" (choreographer Pavel Glukhov, Novaya Opera, 2026).
© Photo: Anastasia Mikhaylova
Guest lecturer (Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University, Gnessin Russian Academy of Music). Gives public lectures on opera theatre.
From 1998 to 2000, she was head of the literary department and press secretary of the Helikon-Opera Moscow music theatre. From 2001 to 2025 she headed the literary and publishing department at the Bolshoi Theatre. From 2011 to 2020 – consultant for the project "The Met: Live in HD" opera broadcasts in cinemas.
Since 1995, she has been publishing as a music and theatre critic in mass media and professional journals ("Kommersant", "Screen and Stage", "Music Review", "Music Academy", "Musical Life", "Bolshoi Theatre", "Theatre"). Author of articles in the collections "How to Watch Opera", "The Most Famous Opera Productions", "Intendants. Dramatists", "Opera Conductors 2" (Agraf, Kraft+ publishers). Author of the book "Giacomo Puccini: Hostage of Melodrama" (2024).
Dramaturg and co-curator of projects of the Bolshoi Theatre's Young Opera Program: "Cantatas Lab" (2018) and "Cantatas. Myth" (2021). Dramaturg of the physical theatre production "(Not) Russian Poets" (director and choreographer Ksenia Malinina, Perm Academic Theatre-Theatre, 2025), of the new production of the opera "Idomeneo" (director Roman Kocherzhevsky, Mariinsky Theatre, 2026), and of the ballet "The Nutcracker. Unfairytale" (choreographer Pavel Glukhov, Novaya Opera, 2026).
© Photo: Anastasia Mikhaylova
