Valeri Lewenthal

Valeri Lewenthal , Russian Валерий Левенталь (born August 17, 1938 in Moscow , † June 8, 2015 in Maryland , USA) was a Russian set designer and scenographer .

biography

Valeri Lewenthal graduated from the State Film Institute in 1962 as a film designer. His debut took place a year earlier with the sail production Farewell to you pigeons . Since 1963 he worked as a set designer.

From 1965 Lewenthal worked at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, from 1988 to 1995 he was the head of the house. He created his work primarily for opera productions by Boris Pokrowski. He designed the outfits for Madama Butterfly and Tosca by Giacomo Puccini , Semjon Kotko , The Engagement in the Monastery and The Gambler by Sergei Prokofiev , Anna Karenina , Dead Souls , The Seagull and The Lady with the Dog by Rodion Konstantinowitsch Schchedrin , It is at dawn still still and Macbeth by Kirill Molchanov , Mozart and Salieri , Mlada , The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow , Cipollino by K. Khachaturyan, Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Katerina Ismailowa by Dmitri Shostakowitsch , Carmen by Georges Bizet , Eugene Onegin and The Maid of Orleans by Peter Tchaikovsky , Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin , Le Corsaire by Cesare Pugni , Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus and others.

Lewenthal also worked on GDR stages, for example at the Berlin State Opera ( Franz Schreker : Der Schmied von Gent , director: Erhard Fischer ) and at the Komische Oper, where he worked with Walter Felsenstein and Harry Kupfer ( Giustino , 1985 and Die Zauberflöte , 1999 ) worked together.

From 1983 to 1996 Lewenthal was a professor at the Moscow Art Theater School , where he founded the stage design department.

Web links

• Valeri Lewenthal on the sides of the Bolshoi (English)