Rocc (born Rok Rappl; 14 December 1979) 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.
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Biography
Born in Ljubljana, Rocc studied opera stage direction at the Janá?ek 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 Operas in Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Ljubljana, Riga, Wroc?aw, Opera Bergen, and elsewhere. His projects have been presented within several international festivals, e.g. Ljubljana Festival, Festival Janá?ek 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.
In the 2007-08 season Rocc held the post of Dramaturge of the Slovenian National Opera in Maribor. The 2008-09 season saw him as Deputy Artistic Director and Dramaturge of the Janá?ek Opera of the National Theatre Brno, 2009-11 he was Artistic Director of the Janá?ek Opera and a member of the Programme Board of the International Festival Janá?ek Brno. In 2011-13 he was Artistic Director of the Prague State Opera, which from 2012 has been affiliated with the National Opera in Prague. In November 2013 he became Artistic Director of the Slovenian National Opera in his hometown Ljubljana.
Rocc also works as a pedagogue of stage movement and acting for young opera singers, he has been a member of juries of international singing competitions. In 2018 he received the recognition for important works of art, the highest artistic title of the University of Ljubljana, which is equivalent to the scientific title of Doctor of Science.
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Opera productions
- 1999 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: La serva padrona, Chamber Opera of the Janá?ek Academy in Brno
- 2002 Alessandro Scarlatti: L'amor generoso, Chamber Opera of the Janá?ek Academy in Brno
- 2003 Ernst Toch: The Princess and the Pea, National Opera Ljubljana
- 2004 Josef Berg: Euphrides in Front of the Gates of Tymenas, Studio 09 of the Janá?ek Academy in Brno
- 2004 Josef Berg: Breakfast at the Schlankenwald Castle, Studio 09 of the Janá?ek Academy in Brno
- 2004 Markéta Dvo?áková and Ivo Medek: Dead? (world premiere), National Theatre Prague (Estates Theatre)
- 2005 Vít Zouhar: The Days of the Nights (world premiere), National Theatre Brno (Reduta Theatre)
- 2007 Tomá? Hanzlík: Lacrimae Alexandri Magni (world premiere), National Theatre Prague (Estates Theatre)
- 2008 Philip Glass: Beauty and the Beast, National Theatre Brno (Reduta Theatre)
- 2008 Michal Ko?ut: Macbeth (world premiere), Brno International Music Festival (Reduta Theatre)
- 2009 Joseph Haydn: Lo speziale, National Opera Ljubljana and Ljubljana Festival (open-air)
- 2010 Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola, National Theatre Brno (Mahen Theatre)
- 2010 Leo? Janá?ek: ?árka, National Theatre Ostrava
- 2010 Bohuslav Martin?: Ariane, National Theatre Ostrava
- 2010 Peter ?avli: The Swineherd (world premiere), National Opera Ljubljana and Cankar Hall
- 2011 Vít Zouhar and Tomá? Hanzlík: La Dafne (world premiere), National Theatre Brno (Reduta Theatre)
- 2011 Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Opera Bergen (open-air)
- 2011 Giacomo Puccini: Le Villi, Opera Bergen (open-air)
- 2012 Richard Strauss: Elektra, National Theatre Brno (Janá?ek Theatre)
- 2012 Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Miserly Knight, Opera Bergen (Den Nationale Scene)
- 2012 Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, Opera Bergen (Den Nationale Scene)
- 2012 Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande, National Theatre Prague
- 2013 Benjamin Britten: Let's Make an Opera! The Little Sweep, National Opera Riga
- 2013 Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, National Theatre Ostrava
- 2013 Giacomo Puccini: La bohème, Opera Bergen (open-air)
- 2014 Ivo Medek and Markéta Dvo?áková: Alice in Bed (world premiere), National Theatre Brno (Reduta Theatre)
- 2014 Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, Opera Bergen (open-air)
- 2014 Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, Opera Bergen (open-air)
- 2014 Andrew Yin Svoboda: Martin St?eda, opera povera (Chamber Hall of the Janá?ek Academy in Brno)
- 2015 Milko Lazar: The Tenth Daughter (world premiere), National Opera Ljubljana
- 2015 Vít Zouhar and Rocc: Echo-Metamorphoses I (opera-installation, world premiere), opera povera and PQ 2015 (Czech Museum of Music in Prague)
- 2015 Georges Bizet: Carmen, Opera Bergen (open-air)
- 2015 Grigory Frid: The Diary of Anne Frank, National Opera Ljubljana (Stage -3)
- 2015 Grigory Frid: The Diary of Anne Frank, Opera Bergen and opera povera (Den Nationale Scene - Little Stage)
- 2016 Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Opera Bergen and Bergen International Festival (Den Nationale Scene)
- 2016 Edvard Grieg: Haugtussa, opera povera and National Theatre Brno (Orlí Theatre Brno)
- 2016 Leo? Janá?ek: The Diary of One Who Disappeared, opera povera and National Theatre Brno (Orlí Theatre Brno)
- 2017 Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, National Opera Ljubljana and Wroc?aw Opera
- 2017 Vít Zouhar and Rocc: Echo-Metamorphoses II (opera-ambient, world premiere), opera povera (Czech Museum of Music in Prague)
References
External links
- Rocc's official website
- Official Facebook page
- Rocc's Operabase profile/schedule
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