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Nicholas Georgiadis was born in
Greece and in 1953 went to
England.
He studied architecture in
Athens, New
York and the Slade School of
Fine Art in
London, where he now lectures on
stage
design.
His designs for the ballet
include
MacMillan's Danses
Concertantes,
House of Birds, Noctambules,
Agon,
The Burrow, The Invitation, Las
Hermanas, Song of the Earth,
Manon,
Mayerling, Orpheus (for The
Royal Ballet), Benjamin
Britten's
Prince of the Pagodas
(for the
Royal Opera House), Swan
Lake (for the Berlin Opera
House); Nureyev's production of
The Nutcracker, The
Tempest and MacMillan's
production of Manon (for
The
Royal Ballet and the Paris Opera
Ballet), Swan Lake
(Vienna
State Opera House), The
Sleeping
Beauty (La Scala, Milan,
National
Ballet of Canada, Vienna State Opera
and London Festival Ballet),
Raymonda (American Ballet
Theatre, Zurich Opera House and Paris
Opera Ballet), Manfred (Zurich
Opera House), Don Quixote
(Zurich, Berlin and Paris Opera
Houses, and International Ballet
Festival, Boston); and Lynn Seymour's
Intimate Letters
(Sadler's Wells
Royal
Ballet).
Mr. Georgiadis' designs for
Orpheus and The
Tempest won him the London
Evening Standard Ballet Award
for the
most outstanding achievement in
1982.
Mr. Georgiadis' designs for opera
include Aida and The
Trojans (The Royal Opera);
Medea (Frankfurt Opera
House); Anna Bolena (Athens
Opera House); and Don
Giovanni (Athens Festival). He
also designed for
Aix-en-Provence
Festival Mozart's La Clemence de
Tito, and last year Chillea's
Adriana Lecouvreur for the
Athens Opera. His designs for plays
include Lysistrata (Royal
Court), Montherlant's La Reine
Morte (Oxford Playhouse),
Julius Caesar (Old Vic),
Antony and Cleopatra
(Prospect Theatre Company), All
for Love (Prospect),
Captain
Brassbound's Conversion
(Haymarket), more recently
Pirandello's As You Desire Me,
(for which he received the
Carlos Koun
Prize) and Schintzler's
Anatol.
His costume designs for films include
Euripides' The Trojan Woman,
and the reconstruction of the Ballets
Russes designs for
Nijinksy.
Mr. Georgiadis received the
C.B.E. at
the 1984 Birthday
Honours. |
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