George Tsypin

George Tsypin graduated from the Moscow School of Architecture in 1977. The same year he got the Second Prize for the International Competition «New and Spontaneous Ideas for the Theater for Future Generations.» In 1984, he graduated from the New York University (Department of Design for Stage and Film). He worked for many years with renowned directors such as Julie Taymor, Peter Sellars, Pierre Audi, Francesca Zambello, Jürgen Flimm and Andrey Konchalovsky and has a special creative relationship with the conductor Valery Gergiev. He worked with the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Prokofiev’s Gambler and War and Peace, Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Tchaikovsky’s Mazepa), Opéra Bastille in Paris, La Scala in Milan, Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in London, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (Puccini’s Turandot and Prokofiev’s Flaming Angel), Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg (Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Prokofiev’s Gambler and War and Peace, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov and Wagner’s Ring Cycle) among others as well as at the Salzburg Festival. He designed The Little Mermaid and Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark (Tony Award Nomination) on Broadway. In 1999, he created the Planet Earth Gallery, one of the Millennium Projects in England: a major installation of moving architectural elements, videos and 200 sculptures. In 2002, he exhibited his works at the Venice Biennale. He is a recipient of numerous awards and author of the book George Tsypin Opera Factory: Building in the Black Void (2005, Golden Pen Award). He was artistic director, production designer and coauthor of the script for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 and was nominated for an Emmy Award. In 2014, together with Jürgen Flimm worked on the production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut at the Mikhailovsky Theatre.