Sjaron Minailo

Studio Minailo

BIOGRAPHIE

Sjaron Minailo, who was born in Israel, has been living and working in Amsterdam for many years now. He is artistic director of Studio Minailo, a laboratory for experimental music theatre and opera. Sjaron specializes in breaking through the boundaries of traditional opera. His work is often a reaction to social and political developments. Sjaron has directed many multidisciplinary projects, such as the white-cube opera trilogy Pornographia-Megalomania-Nostalgia; his adaptation of Malevich’s opera Victory Over the Sun for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; his installation Rothko Chapel, based on the compositions of Morton Feldman; and his digital work The Transmigration of Morton F, which he created on commission from the Holland Festival and La Monnaie in Brussels. In collaboration with the Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam Dance and Nightshade, he made Before Present. Together with Claron McFadden, he made Nightshade: Aubergine for Muziektheater Transparant, a production about the discovery of the origins of various cultures, focussing on one of the most iconic ingredients in the culinary world, the aubergine. Sjaron has worked with orchestras such as the Asko/Schönberg Ensemble, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Residentie Orkest, Capella Cracoviensis and Cappella Mediterranea. Since 2008, he has participated annually in the opera festival Operadagen Rotterdam. For La Monnaie in Brussels, he made and directed the opera Medúlla, based on the similarly named album by Björk. He also made a site-specific production based on Morton Feldman’s Three Voices for Joan La Barbara (ENOA, La Monnaie, Nuit Blanche Brussels) as well as the opera To Be Sung by Pascal Dusapin (La Monnaie), Händel’s Semele for the Operadagen Rotterdam, Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie for Opera Rara in Kraków, Future Opera for the Bergen National Opera and Die Zauberflöte for Teatr Wielki in Poznań. Filmography: 2019 Little Girl Commuter 2018 Soft Forces 2016 The Transmigration of Morton F. 2014 Mijn Liefste 2012 Soul Seek 2005 Kadish

FILMOGRAPHIE