Sergej Morozov, a stage director, graduated from the Russian State Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow. Since then, he has directed several shows, including "Aleko" by Sergei Rachmaninoff in Astrakhan (2023) and "Arianna in Nasso" by Nicola Porpora in Vienna (2017), collaborating with remarkable artists such as Dmitri Tcherniakov, Arno Bernard, Oliver Mears, Dmitry Bertman, Georgy Isaakyan, Igor Ushakov, Konstantin Bogomolov, Hartmut Schörghofer, Markellos Chryssicos, Jan Latham-Koenig, Dmitry Jurovsky, Fabio Mastrangelo, and Ivan Velikanov. He has worked with notable artists such as Dmitri Tcherniakov, Arno Bernard, Oliver Mears, Dmitry Bertman, Georgy Isaakyan, Igor Ushakov, Konstantin Bogomolov, Hartmut Schörghofer, Markellos Chryssicos, Jan Latham-Koenig, Dmitry Jurovsky, Fabio Mastrangelo, and Ivan Velikanov.
Sergej is passionate about institutional collaboration. In 2022, he was the executive producer of the "Four Museums" association. In September 2021, he participated in a laboratory for creating the text opera "General's House: City Opera" in Izhevsk, which involved citizen participation. This project was supported by a grant from the Vladimir Potanin Charity Foundation and was hosted by the Izhevsk Museum and the Center for Contemporary Dramaturgy and Directing in Izhevsk. In 2020, he curated the RAUM SPACE Festival of contemporary art in Kaliningrad and Berlin, which was supported by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also the curator of the Park Gallery in 2020, where he organized a series of performative events called "studio youth union" as part of the educational program of the exhibition "The Youth Union" at The Jewish Museum and Center of Tolerance in Moscow in 2019. Composer Igor Yakovenko was a resident of this program and wrote a vocal cycle based on Vladimir Mayakovsky's heritage.
In the same year, the ZIL Cultural Center hosted a successful eight-day Recreation Festival, which was a joint project of the B-A-Z-A Institute and the ZIL Cultural Center and included theater, music, educational programs, and an exhibition of contemporary art. In 2019, Sergej Morozov produced a performative laboratory called "Out of Joint," which focused on the theme of time and modernity (his second collaboration between the ZIL and The Institute of Contemporary Art B-A-Z-A). The list of curators of this performative laboratory included art critic and philosopher Boris Klushnikov, theorist Egor Sofronov, dance curator Katya Ganushina, and others. In the 2018/2019 season, Sergej curated theatrical programs at the ZIL Cultural Center in Moscow.
Sergej pays special attention to contemporary music in theatre. He has collaborated with the vocal theatre "La Gol" as a co-director and performer. He initiated the creation of new pieces of contemporary music, including the documentary text opera "Sense of Home" (2022), the opera "Marya Stavrogina" (2021), the musical "Leonard and Susanna" (2019), the opera "Imprints" (2019), and the musical "Netochka and The Christmas" (2014).
Sergej Morozov has collaborated with many contemporary composers. Among them are Lydia-Maria Koshevaya, Anna Pospelova, Bayaru Takshina, Natalia Pshenichnikova, Elizaveta Sanicheva, Rigel Vinskaya, Eugene Birman, Nikolai Popov, Oleg Gudachev, Anton Svetlichny, Kirill Shirokov, Alexei Najarov, Dmitry Mazurov, Efrem Podgaits, Vladimir Martynov, Alexander Margolin, Roman Zhaurov, Felix Mirensky, Igor Yakovenko, Alexei Epishev, Ivan Yerofeev, and others.
The first performance of Kirill Shirokov's documentary text opera «Sense of Home» was held in October 2022 at the Centre for Contemporary Play and Theater (Izhevsk). In this project, Sergej was not only the stage director but also wrote the libretto. «Sense of Home» is based on interviews with residents of Izhevsk City. In September 2021, the world premiere of «Russia: Today», a documentary opera for five voices and electronics, took place at the Vaba Lava Theater in Narva, Estonia. Composer Eugene Bierman and librettist Scott Diehl have created an impressive landscape of opinions from residents of Russia's border regions. Sergej was the stage director of «Russia: Today». Oleg Gudachev's opera Marja Stavrogin premiered at the New Space at the Theater of Nations as part of the Dostoevsky 200 Opera Lab in 2021. Sergej was the librettist and director of this work based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel «Demon.» A new chamber musical by Alexander Margolin, "Leonard, and Suzanne," premiered in 2019. The plot is based on the biography of the singer and poet Leonard Cohen. In 2019 Sergej directed the world premiere of the opera «Imprints» by Anna Pospelova. This site-specific opera production was part of the Archstoyanie festival in the Kaluga region. In 2018 Sergey curated an extensive performative event based on the text of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
The project called «Constitution» was produced in Meyerhold Center Moscow. In 2017 Sergej staged the opera «Arianna in Nasso» by Nicola Porpora in Kammeroper Wien (Theater an der Wien) in collaboration with Ksenia Peretrukhina and Alexey Lobanov. Sergej was an initiator and producer of the «Diet Mountain Due» exhibition in the foyer of Kammeroper Wien. This exhibition was curated by Andrey Parshikov. In May 2023 Sergey Morozov made his debut on the Russian opera stage with a production of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Aleko at the Astrakhan Opera and Ballet Theatre. The production was created together with stage designer Oleg Molchanov, choreographer Evgenia Berdichevskaya and conductor Valery Voronin.
As a curator, Sergej produced performances in the Center for contemporary art Winzavod, The Jewish Museum and Center of Tolerance, The State Museum of Architecture, Stanislavsky House Museum, NCCA, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Gallery Belyaevo, Gallery Kashirka, Sidur Museum Moscow, Gallary AZ, Darwin Museum Moscow, Gallery Shabolovka, Peresvetov Lane Gallery, Museon Park, GROUND Gallery, and others. Sergej works as a curator and producer of exhibitions in different cultural institutions in Russia and abroad.
In 2020 Sergej and Danish stage designer Karin Gille was the finalists in the Camerata Nuova opera competition in Karlsruhe, Germany. The performative project «Constitution» was nominated for Sergej Kurechin’s Award in 2019. Sergej Morozov and his partner Sasha Alekseeva are the team-finalist of the prestigious international competition Ring Award’17. The team presented its version of the first act of Donizetti’s «Don Pasquale» in Schauspielhaus, Graz in June 2017. Apart from this Sergej is the twice prize-winner of The State Grand for Creative Youth founded by The State Theatrical Union, the winner of The ZIL Competition of Creative Project in 2013, and the finalist of the II International Competition for Young Opera Directors Nano-Opera in 2015.
As an artist, Sergey works on the problem of the objectification of sound. The subject of his interest lies in the field of the phenomenology of the voice and the role of the voice as the medium in contemporary art. With the support of the Cosmoscow Foundation, Morozov released video series titled «The Voice in Art» in 2020. Sergej Morozov develops publishing within the framework of his curatorial projects. Sergej is the invited tutor at HKBU, HSE University, MSSES-Shaninka, and Moscow International University.