Artistic Director of Petit Opera (Little Opera)

Theater scholar, theater critic, theater manager, and director.

Expert of the ROSATOMA Cultural Territory festival.

Musical education
2000 - 2004 - GITIS, theater studies faculty.
Specialty: theater studies. Course of Y.S.Rybakov

2007 - advanced training courses on "Theatre Management and Fundraising" by Artur Ghukasyan (at the Vsevolod Meyerhold Center).

Creative biography
In 2006 Irina Plotnikova created her own Creative Group Petit Opera (Little Opera) with director Yuri Khochin (1970-2009), conductor Vyacheslav Valeev and artist Maxim Obrezkov
2006 - the opera Didon and Aeneas by G. Purcell was performed at the Meyerhold Center.
2007 - The production of G. Purcell's opera "King Arthur". The performance won the Open Stage Festival at the "On Strastnoy" shopping center in the category "Best Direction".
2008 - Production of G.Purcell's opera "The Queen of Fairies"

From 2006 to 2008 Petit Opera, in addition to producing performances, has been actively performing at various venues in Moscow: the Historical Museum, Manezh, Art Art Art Galleries with concerts of Russian and foreign classical and contemporary opera.
In December 2009 . The performance "Director of the Theater" in Leonid Roberman's entreprise "Art-Partner XXI Century" was released (directed by Dmitry Bertman, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Artistic Director of the Helikon Opera, Irina Plotnikova, Head of the Petit Opera Chamber Ensemble, Maxim Obrezkov, set designer, starring Igor Kostolevsky, Mikhail Filippov, Mikhail Yanushkevich, soloists of the Helikon Opera - Marina Karpechenko, Inna Zvenyatskaya).
March 2010 - the performance "Joyce. All About Ulysses" based on Joyce's novel "Ulysses", with texts by S. Beckett and music by G. Purcell.
June 2010 - the performance "Pierre and Annette", music by contemporary composer Vladimir Kachesov, libretto by Vadim Stepantsov (group "Bakhyt-Kompot") was released.
In 2012 the premiere of the project "The Tempest.Shakespeare-Persell", based on the play "The Tempest" by W. Shakespeare and the opera "The Tempest" by G. Purcell took place. The role of Prospero was performed by Alexey Bagdasarov. In 2013 the play took part in the Golden Mask Festival.
In March 2016 the premiere of L. Cherubini's opera Pygmalion took place at the Helikon Opera Theater. Musical director - Sergey Chechetko, choreographer-director - Ksenia Lisanskaya.
On May 7, 2016 a concert program based on the works of P.I.Tchaikovsky and Shakespeare's sonnets, translated by M.I.Tchaikovsky, was presented at the festival "Spring in Klinu" at the composer's museum on his birthday. Shakespeare's sonnets were performed by Boris Plotnikov, People's Artist of Russia. Arias from Tchaikovsky's operas were performed by soloists of the Helikon Opera Theater: Irina Reynard, Anna Pegova and Dmitry Khromov. The piano part was performed by Sergei Chechetko.

Employment history:
2016-present .
Deputy Director of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra "Musica Viva" under the direction of People's Artist of Russia Alexander Rudin.
2013 - 2015
Assistant to the Artistic Director of the State Budgetary Institution of Moscow "Moscow Musical Theater "Helikon-Opera", People's Artist of Russia Dmitry Bertman.
2006-2013
Chief Specialist of the State Budgetary Institution of Moscow "Open Stage Project Directorate" of the Department of Culture of Moscow.
Main activity: production and distribution of performances, preparation of applications for a grant from the Department of Culture of Moscow for the project "Open Stage".
Selection of material, negotiations with directors, actors, artists. Agreeing contracts and agreements. Compiling schedules, planning and conducting rehearsals. Supervising the production of scenery and costumes. Supervising the implementation of the Open Stage project grant report. Renting venues. Organization of Moscow performances and concerts. Organization and holding of tours, festivals. Coordination of advertising campaigns. Repertoire planning.
2006-2009
Teacher of the International Slavic Institute named after G.R.Derzhavin. Discipline - History of Russian theater.
2004-2006
Lecturer at the Institute of Musical Plastics and Drama. Disciplines - History of Russian and foreign theater, Cultural Studies.
2002 - 2004
Assistant to the artistic director for public relations of the Moscow theater "OKOLO of Stanislavsky's house".