Biography
Born in Minsk (Byelorussia).
Graduated from the Byelorussian Academy of Arts in 1982. Was engaged as the principal designer with the Byelorussian Youth Theatre and has designed productions for the Moscow Russian Army Theatre
(The Winded Horse) and St Petersburg's Grand Drama Theatre (Les Caprices de Marianne, Californian Suite, The Dresser, Quartet and The Night Before Christmas).
From 1998 to 2000, was the principal designer with the St Petersburg Chamber Opera Company, where he designed productions including Siegfried Matthus' Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets
Christoph Rilke, The Queen of Spades and Madama Butterfly.
Among his most recent works are Boris Godunov (National Academic Opera Theatre of the Republic of Byelorussia, 2001), the musical Nord-Ost (Moscow, 2002), Le Boulevard du
Crime (Yevgeny Vakhtangov Theatre, 2003), Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Rostov Musical Theatre, 2003, 2004), Anna Karenina and The
Seagull (St Petersburg Boris Eifman Ballet Theatre; 2005, 2007), Bullets Over Broadway, Locusts (Moscow's Pushkin Drama Theatre; 2007, 2008), The Humpbacked Horse, The
Pickwick Club (Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre; 2008, 2009), and the musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Children's Musical Theatre Carambole, 2009).
At the Mariynsky Theatre he has designed the operas The Nose by Shostakovich (2004), The Tsar's Bride by Rimsky-Korsakov (2004), Tristan und Isolde by Wagner (2005),
The Gambler by Prokofiev (2007), Jenufa by Janacek (2007), Benvenuto Cellini by Berlioz (2007), Otello (2007), Smelkov's The Brothers Karamazov (2008) and
Shostakovich's ballet The Golden Age (2006).
At the Bolshoi Theatre he has designed the operetta Die Fledermaus (2010).
Awards
Recipient of the silver medal at the Prague Quadrennial – 1995 international exhibition of stage design and theatre architecture.
Recipient of the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg's most prestigious theatre prize, for "Best set designs" for The Nose (Mariynsky Theatre, 2004).
Recipient of Russia's national Golden Mask theatre prize for "Best designs in musical theatre" for his productions of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Musical Theatre, Rostov-on-Don, 2005)
and Jenufa (Mariynsky Theatre, 2008).
Recipient of the Crystal Turandot, Moscow's most prestigious theatre prize, for "Best set designs" for The Humpbacked Horse (Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre, 2008).
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