Chloé Obolensky

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Chloé Obolensky (born in Greece in 1942 ) is a Greek stage and costume designer who works for drama, opera and film.

life and work

Obolensky studied in England and France and names Lilya de Nobile as a teacher and the then leading Greek set designer Janis Zaruhis . It made its debut in Athens in 1967 with a production of Aristophanes , staged by Karolos Koun (1908–1987). This was followed by productions at the Comédie-Française in Paris, at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto and Verdi's Aida in a production by Franco Zeffirelli at La Scala in Milan .

She worked with Peter Brook for more than twenty years and designed the costumes, and occasionally the set, for his productions - including Chekhov's Cherry Orchard and its 1982 film, Mahabharata , Hamlet and Sturm, and Can Themba's The Suit . She took on the costume design for Brooks' opera interpretations La Tragédie de Carmen , also as a film version, and for the Impressions de Paellas , both presented for the first time at Brooks Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord , and in 1998 for its Don Giovanni production at the Festival d'Aix-en -Provence , which was viewed as a triumph in the German press. At the same time she worked in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Italy - for example Eugen Onegin in a production by Andrei Șerban at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice or Rossini's Tancredi in Amsterdam.

In 1993 the artist made her first guest appearance at the Salzburg Festival . This year she was invited by Deborah Warner to design the costumes for her Coriolan production at the Felsenreitschule . The stage was designed by Hildegard Bechtler , the lighting by Jean Kalman . In 1996 she took on the costume design for Verdi's Otello in the Großer Festspielhaus at the Easter Festival , Ermanno Olmi staged it and Claudio Abbado conducted it . This was followed in 2001 - again at the Felsenreitschule - by Janáček's Jenůfa , staged by Bob Swaim and conducted by John Eliot Gardiner . The stage designer was Ferdinand Wögerbauer , and the lighting designer was Jean Kalman.

Her collaboration with Russian director Lev Dodin began in Amsterdam in 1999 with Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades . This was followed by Chekhov's Seagull at the St. Petersburg Maly Theater and Dostoyevsky's The Demons in Paris. The Piqué Dame was filmed in 2007 and the stage version could be seen at the Opéra National de Paris in 2012 and at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow in 2015 . In 2007 Obolensky - together with her colleagues Patrick Kinmonth and Jannis Kounellis - supported director Pierre Audi in realizing his ambitious Monteverdi Evening at De Nederlandse Opera , consisting of Lamento d'Arianna , Il ballo della ingrate and Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda .

The outfitter also has a long-standing collaboration with British director Deborah Warner . After the Salzburg Coriolan , they worked together at the English National Opera in London in 2007 Britten's Death in Venice , then also in Milan and Amsterdam, and in 2011 Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin , re-rehearsed by Fiona Shaw in 2013 at the Metropolitan Opera In New York and broadcast live worldwide. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas was a coproduction of the Paris Opéra-Comique with Amsterdam and the Wiener Festwochen , with Les Arts Florissants and the conductor William Christie . In 2009 this production was also filmed. In 2014, Warner's interpretation of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, for which Obolensky also designed the stage design, received particular attention and approval from the public and press .

Two productions with Chloé Obolensky's participation were shown in the cinema: 1975 Raymond Rouleau's Ondine , for whom she designed the production and costumes, and 1999 Martha Fiennes' Onegin - Eine Liebe in St. Petersburg , for which she designed the costumes together with John Bright .

Chloé Obolensky's interest in photography led, on the one hand, to a larger exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens, and, on the other, to an illustrated book about imperial Russia , published in 1979 by the renowned publishing house Random House and then in German and French.

She is a cousin by marriage of Dimitri Obolensky (1918-2001), who held the Chair of Russian and Balkan History at the University of Oxford from 1965 to 1981 . She accompanied him on his travels to Greece and looked after him in the last phase of his life.

Filmography (selection)

Book publication

  • The Russian Empire - A Portrait in Photographs . Random House, New York 1979
    • (de) Old Russia. A portrait in early photographs 1850–1914 . CH Beck, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-406-07793-5
    • (fr) Russie - Images d'un Empire . Albin Michel, Paris 1992

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claus Spahn : The fragrances of passion , Die Zeit , July 16, 1998
  2. ^ Peter Cosse : Danger of falling with "Otello" , Berliner Zeitung , April 1, 1996
  3. ↑ Bachtrack: Warner's electrifying Fidelio starts the season and ends an era at La Scala , December 15, 2014
  4. ^ The Telegraph : Professor Sir Dimitri Obolensky , January 7, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Obolensky, Chloé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek stage and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Greece