Director Ivan Popovski has a reputation for being an aesthete with impeccable taste. Poetry and music are his native element. He gives the impression of a very bright person who knows how to love and knows no enmity. Ivan leafs through an album with personal photos and comments on the most important.
Ivan Popovskand 40 years old.
Theater director. Born and raised in Skopje (Macedonia). Graduated from the directing department of GITIS. Theater award winner. Performances: “Adventure” (GITIS), “Bath” (New York), the opera “Eugene Onegin” (Lille, France), “Balaganchik”, “Poisoned Tunic”, “Rhinoceros” (all – “Pyotr Fomenko’s Workshop”) , “PS Dreams …”, “Absinthe”, “Seasons … Years …” (all – Theater of Music and Poetry directed by Elena Kamburova), operas “The Tsar’s Bride”, “Carmen”, “Rigoletto” (all – Center for Opera Singing Galina Vishnevskaya).
“Dream Fulfillment Day”
“My first performance, which I staged at the age of 16 based on my own play, was sent to the main amateur theater festival in the republic. In order to be in time for the performance, it was necessary to leave school. But the physics teacher did not let go, threatening with a unit at the end of the year, and for this they could be left for the second year. And I chickened out – I didn’t leave. Nightmare! After the death of my grandmother, this day seemed to me the most tragic. But after the lesson, going out into the street, I suddenly saw a car: mom and dad were waiting for me to take me to the performance … Dad never drove at such a speed in his life! And after the performance, they were discussed by the jury, and the professor of the Theater Academy began to convince them that I needed to direct. It was after that that they took my dream of theater seriously.”