Bolshoi Theatre • Alexei Votyakov

Designer

Alexei
Votyakov

Alexei Votyakov

Graduated from the department of Design of the Magnitogorsk University in 1998, and completed his postgraduate degree in Scenography and Costume in 2003. As designer he worked on performances: Home, Last Summer in Chulimsk (Moscow Art Theatre), The Devil, Wife, The Twelfth Night, The Toupée Artist (Oleg Tabakov Theatre), An Envy Man (Russian Academic Youth Theatre), Pretty Girl (Moscow Sovremennik Theatre), The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Oliver Twist (Children's musical theatre to them. N. Sats), Talk after the Funeral (Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya).

He has collaborated with many Russian theatres, including the Mariinsky Theatre, Theatre on the Fontanka (St. Petersburg), the Academic Drama Theatre, the Fifth Theatre (Omsk), the Ekaterinburg Children’s Theater, the Kamala Theater (Kazan), as well as theatres in Ufa, Voronezh, Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Perm, Samara, Saratov, Nizhny Novgorod, Seoul, etc.

Worked with directors: K. Ginkas, V. Akhadov, L. Erenburg, V. Kramer, V. Kokorin, G. Zverava, G. Isaakyan, B. Zeitlin, S. Puskepalis, M. Kalsin, V. Schreiman, G. Byzgu, E. Gorokhovsky, E. Polovtseva, E. Peregudov, M. Stankevich, E. Ravinsky, etc.

Awards

Golden Mask Award for the performance Thunder-Storm (Magnitogorsk Drama Theatre)

Silver Medal of the Russian Artists’ Union for the The Song presented at the Interregional Biennale of Contemporary Art of the Urals «LABYRINTH»

2014

Productions

Designed more than 150 performances, those among:

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir. V. Shrayman, Magnitogorsk Drama Theatre), The King Dies (dir. V. Kokorin, Omsk Academic Drama Theatre), The Marriage. Superfly! based on the play by N. Gogol (dir. V. Kramer; a coproduction of Saint-Petersburg Theatre «Baltic House» and the Florentine Theatre Metastasio), The Seagull (dir. K. Ginkas, OD MUSICAL COMPANI, Seoul, South Korea), the opera A Carriage (composer A. Kruglik, conductor Valery Gergiev, director M. Kalsin; Mariinsky theatre), The Devil (dir. M. Stankevich, Moscow Oleg Tabakov Theater), L'Avare (dir. E. Peregudov, RAMT), The Wife (dir. M. Stankevich, Moscow Oleg Tabakov Theater), Toupee Artist (dir. M. Stankevich, Moscow Oleg Tabakov Theater), Women’s Time (dir. Danilov, Magnitogorsk Pushkin Drama Theatre), The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Oliver Twist (dir. G. Isaakyan, N. Sats Moscow Children's Academic Theatre), My Name is Red (dir. M. Kalsin, Kamal Theater), A Streetcar Named Desire (dir. E. Ravinsky, Voronezh Chamber Theater).

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»

Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — TBank

Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM