Rocc (opera stage director)
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Rok Rappl 14 December 1979 Ljubljana, Slovenia |
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Rocc (born 14 December 1979 as Rok Rappl) is a Slovenian-born opera stage director, scenographer, dramaturge and performance artist. His professional mononymous pseudonym is a tribute to Marie Mrázková, Rocc's professor of stage acting and his mentor.
Born in Ljubljana, Rocc studied opera stage direction at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno (1998–2003, Master of Arts), followed up by postgraduate studies of stage design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zurich (2003–2005, Executive Master), and with rosalie at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main (2005–2006, Certificate). He was granted a scholarship by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, as well as receiving support from the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Rocc has staged and designed opera productions in the National Theatres in Prague,Brno, Ostrava, Ljubljana, Riga, Opera Bergen in Norway etc. His projects have been presented within several international festivals, e.g. Ljubljana Festival, Festival Janáček Brno, Moravian Autumn Music Festival in Brno, Festival of Music Theatre in Prague, Prague Quadrennial, Warsaw Autumn Festival of Contemporary Music, Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, ISCM World Music Days and Bergen International Festival. His work in contemporary music theatre is combined with alternative performing arts, installation, new media and site-specific projects. Since 2013 he has been the initiator and Artistic Director of "opera povera", an ensemble focused on contemporary music-theatre aesthetics.
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