Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre for Children and Youth in the Mirror of Individual Personalities

The article considers the ways of creative personalities who worked at the Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth – soloist Liudmyly Monastyrska, conductor Oleksii Baklan, director Mykola Merzlikin, set designer Liudmyla Nahorna. Thanks to our own interviews with L. Nahorna, it was found out that the theater provides an opportunity to gain experience of stage practice and experience of dialogue “spectator – actor”. On the example of the work of director M. Merzlikin and artist L. Nahorna – representatives of the artistic management it was determined that the right repertoire is a success of the theater for many years. The purpose of the article is to analyze the activity of KMATOB for children and youth as a platform for realization of creative searches of young artists of a scene. The methodology consists in the systematic use of complex research methods in the study of creative biographies of individuals who worked at the Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth: analytical is for the study of cultural, art and theater scientific literature, as well as the processing of archival materials; bibliographic method; method of scientific observation and analysis; method of theoretical generalization is to summarize the study. The scientific novelty of the study. Art study of the Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth on the example of studying the work of Liudmyla Monastyrska, Oleksii Baklan, Mykola Merzlikin, Liudmyla Nahorna helped to identify the specifics of the team work as a platform for the creative searches realization of young artists of the stage. Conclusions. The importance of creating a theater as a center of education and the young generation development of not only artists but also spectators has been substantiated. The theater helps to reveal the talents of young performers and directors; allows for experiments in both the staging and performing spheres of performing arts, in particular opera and ballet; instilling in young viewers a musical culture, promotes the dialogue development “viewer – actor”.