PRESS
“Maya Petrovna delivered an extraordinary opera and performance art… With her original music and 13 self-designed costumes, she created a futuristic utopia where alienated beings try to relate to one another. The performance, deeply visual and immersive, blends influences from Jodorowsky to films like Baraka, Samsara, and Koyaanisqatsi.”
By Regional Express Portal Istria, David Belas director of Sedam Dana Stvaranja
“The starship takes off from the Castle to the world of Futura Monomania… A complete sensory explosion and an exhilarating opera experience that will leave you in awe for hours afterwards, brought to us by Maya Petrovna.”
By International Art Festival Sedam Dana Stvaranja PR (Croatia)
“Maya Petrovna presents the surrealist operatic production Futura Monomania, a performance unlike any other opera. The handcrafted costumes, all created by the artist herself, speak volumes about the depth and vision behind the show. Petrovna transforms into surreal beings with elongated limbs and intricately detailed gowns, set against an original opera composition and surrealist video projections. Futura Monomania is a captivating, one-of-a-kind spectacle ..."
By Poreč Art Festival on Maya's performance at Lapidarium
“In Futura Monomania, Maya Petrovna transforms the historic Pazin Castle into a symbolic landscape. Her evocative costumes, experimental projections, and powerful vocal performance evoke surrealism while touching on universal human themes. She explores characters transitioning from old worlds into futurism, creating a deeply multicultural and dreamlike experience. The costumes removed on stage stir complex emotions, which I have experienced as layers that we should discard in order to return to our authentic and real self.“
From Interview by Nevenka Miklenić, Dance Portal Croatia, PLESNA SCENA.hr
"Many emotions and positive vibrations in the show Futura Monomania by Maya Petrovna.”
by Nenad Simunić, co-curator of the Porec Street Art Festival, Lapidarium, Croatia
”Maya lends her creations a chorus of voices as grand as the Italian Operas of the 19th century- and from that great stage her creatures sing to us and tell us stories in a language so open to interpretation that no translation is needed, they speak directly to the heart.”
By director and photographer James Fisher about the collaboration 'Chromophobia'
”Spellbinding singer and performance”
By Alba Rodriguez, Catalan ISSUU
“Maya’s originally composed music will be shown with whimsical costumes and installations. This phenomenal theatre performance will tell you a tale of a lifetime.”
London Looking Glass Cocktail Club
"Maya Petrovna, lacing songs with industrial, theatrical, operatic, atmospheric movements with spacious reverb'd vocals. Nick Cave and Billie Holliday came to mind…”
by David Watts, Producer of Fun da Mental, UK
“Compelling and out there presence of Maya Petrovna, with a rich, deep, Dietrich-like voice. This one-woman show plus occasional dancer was fascinating. Strange. And strangely attractive.”
by Australian Stage Online, capturing one of Maya Petrovna's first solo shows at Sydney Factory Theatre, LLOYD BRADFORD (BRAD) SYKE