Kystian
Lada - Librettist and Dramaturgist
Recent work samples:
- Dodenklas: Requiem, a music theater answer to Tadeusz Kantor’s The Dead Class (2011) // libretto and dramaturgy: Krystian Lada
- Tel Aviv, a theater performance based on the novel by Katharina Hacker (2011) // stage adaptation and dramaturgy: Krystian Lada
- Container, a site-pecific music theatre adaptation of Lukas Moodysson’s art house film (2011) // stage adaptation and dramaturgy: Krystian Lada
- Only My Pen Tolerates My Choices, a performing-concert by Barbara Morgenstern with the text written by Afghan women (2011) // concept and directing: Krystian Lada
Opera dramaturge, librettist and curator based in Amsterdam and
working internationally. After working for some years for Polish
television networks and media production houses as copywriter, creative
director and director, Krystian studied dramaturgy and followed a
research program in literary studies at the University of Amsterdam. He
collaborates as a dramaturge with among others De Nederlandse Opera, De
Munt in Brussels, Grand Theatre-National Opera in Warsaw, Nationale
Reisopera, Kameroperahuis, Nederlands Theater Festival, International
Choreographic Arts Centre in Amsterdam and the laboratory for the
experimental opera Studio Minailo. His libretti were presented by the
Opera Days in Rotterdam and Stadsfestival Zwolle. Krystian gained
assistant director experience while working on opera productions by
Pierre Audi and Richard Jones. He collaborates with contemporary opera
composers Paul Oomen and Kasia Glowicka.
Krystian initiated and has been curating several periodic events in
Amsterdam, such as the European Opera Days in the Netherlands, a
creative activism and professional empowerment program Fringe Fuel for
the Amsterdam Fringe Festival, and the United States of Opera – a
research and expertise platform for opera professionals concerned with
the form and function of the art form opera in the contemporary society.
He coordinated international cultural projects for the Goethe-Institut
and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Warsaw.
Stimulating meaningful encounters between practitioners across various
professional sectors; empowering and leading international teams of
creative professionals; actively exploring new models for opera
engagement with society; bringing opera to a contemporary artistic and
cultural context – this is what drives Krystian in his every day praxis
in-between opera and creative activism.
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