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==Broadway work (selected)== |
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*''Advise and Consent'' - (1961) Tony Award Best Scenic Design (Dramatic) (nominee) |
*''Advise and Consent'' - (1961) Tony Award Best Scenic Design (Dramatic) (nominee) |
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*''[[A Passage to India]]'' (1962) Tony Award Best Scenic Design (nominee) |
*''[[A Passage to India]]'' (1962) Tony Award Best Scenic Design (nominee) |
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*''[[The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui]]'' (1964) Tony Award Best Costume Design (nominee) |
*''[[The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui]]'' (1964) Tony Award Best Costume Design (nominee) |
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*''[[Goodtime Charley]]'' (1975) Tony Award Best Scenic Design (nominee) |
*''[[Goodtime Charley]]'' (1975) Tony Award Best Scenic Design (nominee) |
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*[http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=25362 Internet Broadway Database] |
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*[http://www.filmreference.com/film/40/Rouben-Ter-Arutunian.html Biography at filmreference.com] |
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*[http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Rouben&middle=&last=Ter-Arutunian Internet Off-Broadway Database listing] |
*[http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Rouben&middle=&last=Ter-Arutunian Internet Off-Broadway Database listing] |
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*[http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/exhib/lpa/lpaexhibdesc.cfm?id=250 New York Public Library exhibit listing, 1997] |
*[http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/exhib/lpa/lpaexhibdesc.cfm?id=250 New York Public Library exhibit listing, 1997] |
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Revision as of 14:43, 7 July 2009
Rouben Ter-Arutunian (July 24, 1920 - October 17, 1992) was a costume and scenic designer for dance, opera, theater and television. [1]
Born in Tiflis, Georgia, he attended the Reimann Art School (Berlin) from 1939 to 1941, studied film music at the Hochschule fur Musik (Berlin) and took courses at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University (Berlin), 1941-43, and at the University of Vienna, 1943-44.
He first designed costumes for dancers of the Berlin Staatsoper in 1940, going on to design for the Dresden Opera and the Vienna State Opera. He moved to New York in 1951. In 1964 he designed the sets for the New York City Ballet producion of The Nutcracker. [1] He worked with the New York City Opera company, Hamburg State Opera, La Scala in Milan, the Opera-Comique in Paris and the Spoleto Festival in Italy.
He designed either costumes or sets, sometimes both, for 24 Broadway productions. His first production was Measure for Measure in 1957, and his last was Goodbye Fidel in 1980. He won the 1959 Tony Award, Best Costume Design for the musical Redhead, and was nominated for the Tony Award three times for Scenic Design and once for Costume Design.
The Rouben Ter-Arutunian Design Portfolios are located in the New York Public Library.[2]
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References
- ^ a b Anderson, Jack.Rouben Ter-Arutunian, 72, Dies; Designed City Ballet 'Nutcracker'"The New York Times, October 19, 1992
- ^ New York Public Library listingdanceheritage.org, accessed July 3, 2009