Alexander Petrov

Honoured Artist of Russia, Professor.

Artistic Director and Principal Stage Director of the Zazerkalye State Children’s Music Theatre.
Graduated from the opera directing faculty of the Leningrad Conservatoire. From 1974–1987 he was a director for the Musorgsky Theatre of Opera and Ballet. He has collaborated with many theatres both in Russia and abroad. Productions include Il trovatore and Boris Godunov at Tbilisi’s Opera and Ballet Theatre, Boris Godunov and Colas Breugnon at the Stara Zagora Theatre, Iolanta at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre, Twelve Months at the Moscow Children’s Music Theatre and Love for Three Oranges, Le rossignol and The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Mariinsky Theatre. He has staged works for the Tovstonogov Drama Theatre, the Akimov Comedy Theatre, the Theatre “On Liteiny”, the Bryantsev Young Spectators’ Theatre and theatres in Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine. In 1987, together with conductor Pavel Bubelnikov, he established the St Petersburg Zazerkalye Children’s Music Theatre. He has staged over sixty productions. Since 2004 he has been Art Director of Russia’s Harlequin National Prize and Theatre Festival for Children.