Tatyana Belova was born in Moscow. In 1998 she graduated from Moscow’s Russian State University for the Humanities (course of Vadim Gaevsky).
Worked as the head of the Literary Department and Press Secretary of the Moscow Musical Theatre Helikon-Opera (1998–2000) and later headed the Literary and Publishing Department of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia (2001–2025). From 2011 to 2020 she served as a consultant for the project The Met: Live in HD (opera broadcasts in cinemas).
Has participated in numerous conferences at the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum (Klin, Moscow Region), Moscow’s Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, State Institute for Art Studies, and Russian State University for the Humanities. Also gives public lectures on opera theatre and has lectured at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St Petersburg State University.
As a critic she collaborates with the magazines Muzykalnaya akademiya (“Musical Academy”), Muzykalnaya zhizn (“Musical Life”), Bolshoi Teatr (“Bolshoi Theatre “) and Teatr (“Theatre”). Author of scholarly publications on opera. Her writings appear in the collected volumes How to Watch Opera, The Most Famous Opera Productions, Intendants. Dramaturgs and Opera Conductors 2, as well as in her book Giacomo Puccini: A Prisoner of Melodrama (2024).
She served as the dramaturg for the physical theatre production (not) russian poets (Perm Theatre-Theatre, 2025) and co-authored the libretto of the ballet The Nutcracker (Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow / Ballet Moscow, 2026).
As the libretto translator and author of the video projection texts, Tatyana Belova worked on a Mariinsky Theatre production of Idomeneo, rè di Creta (2026).
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