Elena Zaytseva
Costume Designer
Born in Leningrad, in 1991 she graduated from the Theatre production department at the St. Petersburg Academy of Theatre Art. In 1990-1995, she worked at Lenfilm studio, St Petersburg. In 1995-2001, worked for the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, as Chief Specialist in Design. In 2001-2003, she worked for the New Opera Company as Head of the Costume Department. In 2003, she joined the Bolshoi Theatre as Head of the Costume Department.
She created costumes for
Ballets:
Paquita (2013, Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre)
The Nutcracker (2013, Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre)
Cantus Arcticus (2013, Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre)
Salieri’s Variations (2013, Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre)
Conservatory (2013, Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre)
Swan Lake (2012, Astrakhan Opera and Ballet Theatre)
Jewels (2012, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)
Esmeralda (2011, 2012, Berlin, Mexico City)
La Bayadere (2011, Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre)
Esmeralda (2010, The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)
Petrushka (2010, The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)
Ballet Imperial (2009, Chelyabinsk Opera and Ballet Theatre)
Zakharova Supergame (2008, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)
Giselle (2008, Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre)
Le Corsaire (2008, Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre)
Paquita (2008, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)
Le Corsaire (2007, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)
Workshop of New Choreography (2005, 2006, 2008, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)
Giselle (2005, Zaritsinskaia Opera, Volgograd)
The Sleeping Beauty (1999, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg)
Operas:
The Tsar’s Bride (2014, Teatro alla Scala, Milan; Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)
Prince Igor (2014, The Metropolitan Opera, New York)
La Traviata (2013, Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
The Tsar’s Bride (2013, Berlin State Opera)
Don Giovanni (2013, Teatro Real, Madrid)
Simon Boccanegra (2013, Bavarian Opera, Munich)
Jenufa (2012, Zurich Opera)
Il trovatore (2012, La Monnaie, Brussels)
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (2012, Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam)
Simon Boccanegra (2011, English National Opera, London)
Ruslan and Ludmila (2011, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)
Don Giovanni (2010, Aix-en-Provence, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)
Dialogues of the Carmelites (2010, Bavarian Opera, Munich)
Macbeth (2008, 2009, Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre; Opera Bastille, Paris)
Wozzeck (2009, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2008, Deutsche Opera am Rein, Dusseldorf)
The Gambler (2006, Berlin State Opera; Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2004, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)
The Flying Dutchman (1998, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg)
Dramas:
The Lark (1998, Youth Theatre on the Fontanka, St. Petersburg)
Holy Monsters (1999, Youth Theatre on the Fontanka, St. Petersburg)
Films:
The Time for Grief Has Not Yet Come (dir. S. Selyanov, 1995, Lenfilm)
The Principled and Compassionate Look of Alia K (dir. A. Sukhochev, 1996, Lenfilm).