Oleksiy Volodymyrovych Kolomiitsev (born April 16, 1972, Nikopol, Dnipro region) is a Ukrainian composer, theater director and singer, founder of the author's "Oleksiy Kolomiitsev Theater" (Odesa).
In 1989, after graduating from secondary and music school, he entered the Glinka Dnipropetrovs'k Music School, Department of Folk Instruments, majoring in guitar.
In 1990, he was drafted into the Soviet Army. He served for two years in Berlin, in the orchestra of the 6th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Western Military District. After returning from the army, he continued his studies at the music school and in 1995 graduated with a degree in guitar and vocals. In parallel with his studies, he became a soloist in the Dnipro theatrical ensemble "Cossacks of Zaporizhzhia".
1994 As a soloist in the vocal ensemble "Gamma" (artist M. Tsygutkin) he became a laureate of the international jazz festival "Jazz Horizons", Kryvyi Rih.
In 1995, he entered the Kharkiv State University of Arts named after I. P. Kotliarevsky (KDII) where he studied with N. N. F. Manoylo and V. I. Pidsadnyi.
In 1997, he was enrolled at the directing faculty of the KIIA. He graduated from both faculties in 2000 and 2001 respectively.
1996-2002 During his studies at the Institute of Arts and after graduation, he worked as a director and soloist at the Kharkiv State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after M. N. Lysenko (KATOB), director and soloist at the Kharkiv Musical Comedy Theater, and a teacher at the opera studio of the Kharkiv Conservatory.
2002 - Chief director of the Kharkiv Theater of Musical Comedy (KTMC).
2003 He reached the final of the international competition for opera directors and scenographers RING AWARD (Wagner Forum Graz, Austria) for developing the concept of staging the opera by J. Offenbach "Hoffmann's Tales". In December, he won the national competition for young artists "StArt", International Renaissance Foundation in the nomination "Theater" for staging one-act operettas by J. Offenbach.
2003-2006 Participant in more than 20 European theater festivals as a member of the troupe of the Kharkiv Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Academic Drama Theater.
2005 - work on a musical side project. The project combines selected musical compositions from his own musicals and rock operas, such as Leon Astorga, nicknamed Kerubino, Feminism in Ukrainian, Vivisection, etc. In terms of style, Esthetic Empire is close to Neoclassical crossover and artrock.
In 2006, he created the Theater of the Disadvantaged, a musical and theatrical project in which, along with professional musicians and singers, actors with disabilities take part.
Since 2006, he has been a composer and arranger for the Graviteam company (computer game development).
Since 2007, he has been the director of the Steinway Junior Debut.
In 2008-2009, he was a lecturer at the Department of Directing and Acting at the Animation Theater of the Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I. Kotlyarevsky.
He has made more than twenty productions (operas, musicals, musicals), including in Kharkiv and Dnipro opera theaters, Donetsk, Dniprodzerzhynsk and Odesa music and drama theaters, Moscow theater "School of Modern Play"
Since 2012, he has been the artistic director of the Poltava Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after N. St. Gogol.
From March 2014 to August 2015, he was the director of the Lviv Drama Theater named after L. Ukrainka.
In August 2015, together with Daria Melkina, he created the Theater of Oleksiy Kolomiitsev (TheaterRoK).
Creative work
Directing works
2000 - D. Chimarosa "Secret Marriage", comic opera, Kharkiv Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, small stage 1999 - Guy de Maupassant "The Port", musical mono-novella, KDII
2001 - A. Druzhynin, V. Kolomiytsev, A. Kolomiytsev "The Secret of the Magic Key", musical fairy tale, Kharkiv Musical Comedy Theater
2001 - D. Shostakovich "Anti-formalistic rayon", tragicomedy, Kharkiv Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, main stage
2002 - G. Purcell "Dido and Aeneas", opera-legend, Kharkiv Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, small stage
2002 - F. Legare "Count of Luxembourg", operetta, Kharkiv Musical Comedy Theater
2003 - J. Offenbach "Little Masterpieces of the Great Master", opera comics, Kharkiv Musical Comedy Theater
2003 - O. Kolomiytsev "Cockroach", musical mono-novella, Kharkiv State Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Taras Shevchenko
2005 - D. Chymarosa "Secret Marriage", opera-buff, Dnipropetrovs'k Academic Opera and Ballet Theater
2006 - A. Kolomiytsev "Esthetic Empire", variety theater performance in the genre of neoclassical crossover
2006 - A. Kolomiytsev "Cockroach (Vivisection)", musical tragedy, Theater of the Disadvantaged
2007 - A. Kolomiytsev "Vivisection", rock novels under the moon, Donetsk Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater*.
2009 - A. Kolomiytsev "Feminism in Ukrainian" - musical, author of music and libretto, director, set design, Dniprodzerzhynsk Academic Music and Drama Theater named after Lesya Ukrainka. Sicheslavna Theater Competition and Festival
2009 - A. Kolomiytsev "Night Search" - futuristic opera, author of music and libretto, director, set design. Theater of the Disadvantaged
2009 - best performance, best music, best direction, best scenography, best actress, best actor, best actor, best plastic
2010 - A. Kolomiytsev "Adventures of Munchausen in Ukraine", musical; direction, scenography, Odesa Academic Music and Drama Theater named after Vasylko
2012 - A. Kolomiytsev "The Legend of Taras", light opera; direction, scenography, Poltava Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after N.V. Gogol. Kotlyarevsky and Les Kurbas Prizes
2012 - A. Kolomiytsev "The Adventures of Mr. Munchausen" (The Adventures of Munchausen in Ukraine), musical; direction, scenography, Poltava Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after N. Gogol
2012 - A. Mardan "Full house", a sad comedy; direction, set design, Moscow Theater "School of Modern Play"
2013 - D. Shostakovich "Anti-formalist rayon", satirical opera, Poltava Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after N. Gogol, banned by the Department of Culture of the Poltava State Administration
2014 - D. Shostakovich "Anti-formalist rayok or Stalin was, Stalin is, Stalin will be?", Lviv Drama Theater named after Lesya Ukrainka
2014 - Oleksiy Kolomiytsev (libretto, music, direction, scenography), "Divka" (libretto, music, direction, scenography), Ukrainian musical, Lviv Drama Theater named after Lesya Ukrainka
2014 - Oleksiy Kolomiytsev (author of libretto, music, direction, scenography), live cinema "Vivisection" (author of libretto, music, direction, scenography), Lviv Drama Theater named after Lesya Ukrainka
2015 - I. Poklad, O. Vrataryov, O. Kolomiitsev - "Herod or the story of one passion", rock opera, Lviv Drama Theater named after Lesya Ukrainka
2016 - "2014" - a futuristic opera based on the play by V. Khlebnikov, TheaterRock
2016 - A. Kolomiytsev "Divka" - musical (second edition), TheaterRock
2016 - L. Panteleev - "Hvenka", a musical fairy tale, TheaterRock
2016 - O. Kolomiytsev - "Vivisection - live cinema", (second edition), TheaterRock
2017 - "Night search" - futuristic opera, TheaterRock
2017 - "Rock Maniacs", musical and theatrical performance, TheaterRock
2017 - "Self-vivisection" - a one-man show, TheaterRock
2018 - "Flowers", live cinema (based on the play "Vienna Coffee" by D. Korchynsky), TheaterRock
2019 - "Bloom" (author of the plot and staging, director, production designer, arranger, author of video mapping)
Musical compositions
1987 - "Afghanistan, a country of deaths, remained in my memory...", a rock ballad based on the poems of Volodymyr Kolomiitsev
1996 - "Bambluki", a collection of songs
1997 - "Night Search" (Futuristic Opera "2014") - a chamber opera based on the poem of the same name by Velimir Khlebnikov
2003 - "Vivisection", rock novels based on poems by Mykola Oliynykov 2001 - "Towards the Sun" - a cycle of songs for the musical fairy tale "The Secret of the Magic Key"
2004 - "Carolina's Dream", musical numbers for the opera performance "Secret Marriage"
2005 - Le nozze di Figaro. Postscriptum", a musical cycle. Musical research of the opera "The Marriage of Figaro" by W.-A. Mozart.
2006 - "Slavic fun", show-ballet
2007 - "Not for the sake of pathos", soundtrack to the computer game "Steel Rage"
2007 - "Leon Astorga nicknamed Kerubino" - rock opera, unfinished
2008 - The Troubadour and His Friends, a cover version of the musical of the same name by Gennady Gladkov
2008 - "Feminism in Ukrainian", a musical based on the play "Boy-Woman" by Hryhoriy Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, second edition
2008 - "Burnt Steel", soundtrack to the computer game "Kharkiv-1943"
2010 - "Adventures of Munchausen in Ukraine", musical, author of music and libretto
2011 - "Bluebeard", musical, author of music and libretto
2012 - "Herod or the story of one passion", a cover of the rock opera by Igor Poklad and Alexander Vratarev
2012 - "The Girl", folk musical based on the play "Natalka-Poltavka" by I. Kotlyarevsky, author of the music (libretto by I. Ozarkevych)
2012 - "The Legend of Taras", light opera based on the novel "Taras Bulba" by Nikolai Gogol, author of music and libretto
2012 - "Maria Stewart", light opera, author of music and libretto
Opera parts and roles
Michelle Rakitin in A. Zholdak's production of "The Month of Love"
Figaro (W. A. Mozart "The Marriage of Figaro")
Dr. Bartolo (G. Rossini "The Barber of Seville")
Count Robinson (D. Cimarosa "The Secret Marriage")
William Harrison (Yuri Rybchisky "My Wife is a Lie")
Count Almaviva, (W. A. Mozart "The Marriage of Figaro")
Dr. Malatesta, (G. Donizetti "Don Pasquale")
Philippe la Tourette (I. Kalman "Bayadera")
Count of Luxembourg (F. Legare "Count of Luxembourg")
Sultan, Imam (S. Gulak-Artemovsky "Cossack beyond the Danube")
King Herod, (Igor Poklad, rock opera "Herod")
Dvoikin, (Dmitry Shostakovich, opera "Anti-formalistic rayok")
Filmography
2008 - Cat in the Rain. Archived from the original on January 27, 2022. Cited January 27, 2022.
2011 - Feminism in Ukrainian - TV version of the play
2013 - The Legend of Taras - TV version of the play
2018 - Solar tank
