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Costume sketches by Arthur Oliver

Arthur Oliver
Costume Designer

Arthur Oliver is the consummate Shakespearean theatrical costume designer, joining Moscow Ballet in 2011. He has created for such notable institutions as The Atlanta Opera, The Connecticut Opera, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Shakespeare & Company, Mixed Company, The Stratford Shakespearean Festival, The Yard, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Trinity College, and The Boston Conservatory. A chapter on his professional views of designing for Shakespeare was published in “Shakespeare Festivals Around the World.” He designed a series of short films for The Tropicana Film Festival in Sydney, Australia; worked on the worldwide broadcast of “Evening at Pops/Brush Up Your Shakespeare,” and on a live ESPN broadcast of a 1900′s period baseball game. Oliver's Broadway debut was “Broadway Bares XVII-Myth Behavior.” And in 2005, he collaborated with musician and Grammy Award recipient Carly Simon and Artistic Director Wendy Taucher of The Yard on “Created by Carly Simon: Dances at the Yard.”

Oliver created a complete new wardrobe of costumes in recognition of the 20th Anniversary year of the Great Russian Nutcracker—notably, the Rat King and Mice costumes are inspired by the surreal, dark, and fantastic art of Bosch and Brueghel. Oliver designed costumes for Moscow Ballet’s full-length Romeo and Juliet which premiered in 2011.

Oliver’s work is consistently recognized by top publications... the Boston Globe says, “sumptuous costumes;” Wall Street Journal raves, “richly wrought and resplendent costumes;” CurtainUp writer Elyse Sommer calls Oliver's work, “spectacularly stunning;” and the NY Times raves, “a resplendent tableau of the…royal court, in sumptuous costumes.”

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Valentin Federov
Scenic Designer & Puppet Maker

Valentin Fedorov is a graduate of the Stanislavski Institute. Known as “the Russian Bear” to his colleagues, he is a prodigy of Valery Leventhal of the Bolshoi Ballet, known for his diverse and often wonderfully comical sets. Based in Chuvash, central Russia, he received the title “Honored Artist of Chuvashia” and in 1991, his “Blackberry Along the Fence” won at the Best Performances of Russia Festival.

Oliver created a complete new wardrobe of costumes in recognition of the 20th Anniversary year of the Great Russian Nutcracker—notably, the Rat King and Mice costumes are inspired by the surreal, dark, and fantastic art of Bosch and Brueghel. Oliver designed costumes for Moscow Ballet’s full-length Romeo and Juliet which premiered in 2011.

Federov has been art director at the Chuvashia State Theatre of Opera and Ballet since 1988, where he has designed more than 40 productions for opera and ballet to critical acclaim. Chuvash, a mostly rural province in the middle of the country has a centuries-old history of puppetry. Federov’s fanciful sets and unique 6-foot tall “stick” puppets add to the whimsical and imaginative storytelling that sets Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker apart from others.

Moscow Ballet Producer Akiva Talmi raves, “Valentin brings his love of life into his puppets and even into his backdrops by adding treats for the eye, such as angels with three dimensional trumpets, and paying homage to great Russian artists in the interior backdrop with the “painting” of the Russian Troika, the famous sleigh pulled by three horses abreast, which is practically a symbol of Russia.”

 

 

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