Yannis Thavoris
Set & Costume Designer
60 designers
57 projects
Ηe studied Architecture in Thessaloniki and obtained a Master of Arts in European Scenography at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He was the winner of the 1997 Linbury Prize for Stage Design. He has designed sets and costumes for opera, theatre, musicals and dance in Europe and America. His recent designs include: Mansfield Park, Die Fledermaus (Royal Northern College of Music), Wuthering Heights (sets – National Theatre of Northern Greece and Piraeus Municipal Theatre), Roméo et Juliette, Der Fliegende Holländer (Estonian National Opera), Hänsel & Gretel (Grange Park Opera), Orlando (San Francisco Opera), Roberto Devereux (sets – Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe), Otello (Theater Magdeburg). Also Tosca (Nederlandse Reisopera), Orestes (NTNG at the Epidaurus Festival), L’ elisir d’ amore (Den Jyske Opera), Ariodante, The Lady from the Sea, Orlando, Madama Butterfly (Scottish Opera), Aida (sets – Welsh National Opera), La donna del lago (costumes – Royal Opera Covent Garden), Tosca (Santa Fe Opera), Rigoletto (Bucharest National Opera), Pelléas et Mélisande (Teatro Colόn), La Clemenza di Tito (English National Opera), Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, Don Giovanni, Tosca (Opera Holland Park).
We transposed the familiar fairy-tale-opera to a divided Berlin just before the Fall of the Wall in 1989. The two siblings leave their drab East German apartment block to get lost in a menacing ‘forest’ of tank traps in front of the Wall. They subsequently get drugged by a punk Sandman and they experience History and the Fall of the Wall as an acid trip. Later they get woken up to a New World by a fitness fanatic Dew Fairy. Stepping through a hole in the Wall they get seduced by the Witch of the West and her chocolate capitalism, only to discover what lies behind the pink affluence: a depressing factory with zombie workers operating a conveyor belt in front of a new Wall of packing cardboard boxes. Through collaboration and solidarity, the children dispatch the Witch in her cauldron of chocolate and cause the collapse of the cardboard box Wall, rejecting their parents’ greed.
Music: Engelbert Humperdinck
Conductor: Michael Rosewell
Direction: Stephen Barlow
Set & Costume Design: Yannis Thavoris
Lighting Design: Rory Beaton
Video Design: PJ McEvoy
Photos: Yannis Thavoris
We transposed the familiar fairy-tale-opera to a divided Berlin just before the Fall of the Wall in 1989. The two siblings leave their drab East German apartment block to get lost in a menacing ‘forest’ of tank traps in front of the Wall. They subsequently get drugged by a punk Sandman and they experience History and the Fall of the Wall as an acid trip. Later they get woken up to a New World by a fitness fanatic Dew Fairy. Stepping through a hole in the Wall they get seduced by the Witch of the West and her chocolate capitalism, only to discover what lies behind the pink affluence: a depressing factory with zombie workers operating a conveyor belt in front of a new Wall of packing cardboard boxes. Through collaboration and solidarity, the children dispatch the Witch in her cauldron of chocolate and cause the collapse of the cardboard box Wall, rejecting their parents’ greed.
Ηe studied Architecture in Thessaloniki and obtained a Master of Arts in European Scenography at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He was the winner of the 1997 Linbury Prize for Stage Design. He has designed sets and costumes for opera, theatre, musicals and dance in Europe and America. His recent designs include: Mansfield Park, Die Fledermaus (Royal Northern College of Music), Wuthering Heights (sets – National Theatre of Northern Greece and Piraeus Municipal Theatre), Roméo et Juliette, Der Fliegende Holländer (Estonian National Opera), Hänsel & Gretel (Grange Park Opera), Orlando (San Francisco Opera), Roberto Devereux (sets – Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe), Otello (Theater Magdeburg). Also Tosca (Nederlandse Reisopera), Orestes (NTNG at the Epidaurus Festival), L’ elisir d’ amore (Den Jyske Opera), Ariodante, The Lady from the Sea, Orlando, Madama Butterfly (Scottish Opera), Aida (sets – Welsh National Opera), La donna del lago (costumes – Royal Opera Covent Garden), Tosca (Santa Fe Opera), Rigoletto (Bucharest National Opera), Pelléas et Mélisande (Teatro Colόn), La Clemenza di Tito (English National Opera), Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, Don Giovanni, Tosca (Opera Holland Park).
Music: Engelbert Humperdinck
Conductor: Michael Rosewell
Direction: Stephen Barlow
Set & Costume Design: Yannis Thavoris
Lighting Design: Rory Beaton
Video Design: PJ McEvoy
Photos: Yannis Thavoris
