Sergey Novikov was born in 1977 in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). Started his education in music, specialising in cello at a music school, and continued at a music college, graduating in 1996 and qualifying as an orchestra soloist (alto saxophone) and conductor of a variety band. In 2001 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod as a journalist.
Diploma recipient at the International Competition for Young Opera Directors Nano-Opera in Moscow (2015).
Sergey Novikov directed Dargomyzhsky’s Mermaid in a semi-staged version at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in 2016, conducted by Alexander Rudin. His productions of Iolanta were presented at Moscow’s Helikon-Opera in 2019, under the baton of Evgeny Brazhnik, and at Stockholm’s Royal Swedish Opera in 2021, conducted by John Fiore. He mounted The Oprichnik at St Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Theatre in 2021, under the baton of Alexander Solovyov, and at the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre in 2023, conducted by Filipp Selivanov.
In 2022 Sergey Novikov directed Lakmé, conducted by Alexander Rudin, and in 2023 – Offenbach’s operetta Barbe-Bleue, conducted by Alexander Yudasin, both at the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. Onegin, his rendition of Tchaikovsky’s opera, was performed at the Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theatre in 2023, conducted by Dmitry Sinkovsky.
Has also directed a semi-staged version of Verdi’s Requiem dedicated to the Remembrance Day of the Defenders of Leningrad, performed in Moscow and St Petersburg (2019, conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev), Krasnoyarsk (2020, under the baton of Pavel Kogan), Novosibirsk (2020, conducted by Dmitri Jurowski), Nizhny Novgorod (2020, under the baton of Renat Zhiganshin) and at the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus (2021, conducted by Filipp Selivanov).
In 2023 he directed Lakmé at the Mariinsky Theatre.
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