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Firebird
On The Dnieper
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Galina Solovyeva, a native
of St. Petersburg, graduated as a Costume and Scenic Designer from the
Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography, Russia,
in 1975. She was the resident costume designer for the Mariinsky Theatre
(formerly, Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre), St. Petersburg from 1975;
she immigrated to the USA in 1992. Her international career includes
over 100 designs for ballet, opera, and theatre including the Mariinsky,
Bolshoi, and Mihailovsky theaters in Russia, Ballet Internationale,
New York City Ballet, Het Nationale Ballet in the Netherlands, and the
Japan Ballet. Her costume credits for ballet and opera include Othello,
Eugene Onegin, Sleeping Beauty, Le Corsaire,
The Bolt, The Nutcracker, Firebird, Romeo
and Juliet, Semyon Kotko, and Swan Lake. In collaboration
with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival from1996 to 2001, she designed
costumes for Uncle Vanya, Force of Nature, Rosmersholm,
and Enter the Guardsman.
Solovyeva was honored with a Barrymore Award nomination in 2000 for
outstanding costume design, the Golden Sofit, the highest theatre award
of Saint Petersburg in 2001 and 2008, and the Nika, the main national
film award in Russia in 2001.
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