Sergey Barkhin

Set and costume designer, Lady with a Lapdog. Architect, theater designer, painter, graphic and animation designer. Began his collaboration with Kama Ginkas in 1980 with a production of Hedda Gabler at the Mossoviet Theatre; his work is known throughout Russia and the former Soviet Union. Designs include The Pirate, Boris Godunov, Ruslan and Ludmilla, and Othello (Stanislavsky and Nemirovitch-Danchenko Theatre of Opera and Dance, chief set designer 1988–1991); Traviata, Aida, Iolanta, Francesca da Rimini, Nabucco, Giselle, and Don Quixote (Bolshoi Theatre, chief set designer 1995–2000); Eugene Onegin, La Valli (New Opera Theatre, Moscow); La Forza del Destino (Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg). Numerous productions at the Maly Theater, Moscow Art Theater, New Generation Theatre in Moscow. Worked in Helsinki, Istanbul, Avignon, Tokyo, and participated in numerous personal and group exhibitions in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Zurich, Hanover, Berlin, and Prague, among others. Recipient of the National State Prize of Russia, the national theater award "Golden Mask," the Crystal Turandot, and the Stanislavsky Prize. Since 1990 has been dean of the Faculty of Set Design at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow.