Yannis Thavoris
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Yannis Thavoris was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He is the winner of the 1997 Linbury Prize for Stage Design. In 1994 he graduated with a diploma from the School of Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was awarded the Lilian Voudouris Foundation scholarship in Athens to study at Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in European Scenography in 1997.
Yannis has worked in opera, theatre & architecture. His recent designs include:
MADAM BUTTERFLY (Mid Wales Opera); PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires); SAUL (Buxton Festival); RITA - IOLANTA (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
also LA BOHÈME (British Youth Opera); DON GIOVANNI, PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (Opera Holland Park); THE GREAT EXTENSION (Theatre Royal Stratford East), PETRUSHKA for Scottish Ballet at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival; KATYA KABANOVA (Opera Holland Park 2009); THE KING GOES FORTH TO FRANCE (Guildhall School 2009); GIGI (Regent’s Park 2008); TOSCA (Opera Holland Park 2008 and Richmond Theatre 2009); AÏDA (sets - Welsh National Opera); JENUFA and NABUCCO (Opera Holland Park), THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (Sets - English National Opera); A NIGHT AT THE CHINESE OPERA (Royal Academy of Music); the sets for COSI FAN TUTTE (Opéra National du Rhin 2005, Oviedo 2006 and Scottish Opera 2009); sets and costumes for ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (British tour 2005); sets for LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN (2007) and OPERA SERIA (2005) at the Nationale Reisopera, the Netherlands; sets and costumes for LA CLEMENZA DI TITO (Royal Danish Opera and E.N.O. with David McVicar 2004/05); THE BATTLE OF GREEN LANES (Theatre Royal Stratford East); CANDIDE (Birmingham Opera 2003) and Tchaikovsky's OPRICHNIK (Cagliari 2003) both directed by Graham Vick; Britten's THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA (Aldeburgh Festival, English National Opera and BBCTV) and Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Scottish Opera) both directed by David McVicar; THE RAKE'S PROGRESS directed by Annabel Arden (E.N.O.); Ian Spink's production of Donizetti's THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT for English Touring Opera.
Work in progress includes TOSCA (Santa Fe Opera), DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Royal Academy of Music), THE LADY FROM THE SEA (Scottish Opera)
