Andrei Voitenko

Set Designer

From 1979–1983, he worked at the national Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Opera and Ballet in the Republic of Belarus and as a production designer in the opera studio of the Belorussian State Conservatoire. Since 1983, he has worked at the Mariinsky Theatre, being a key specialist in painting and technological processes. Has taken part in the creation of over one hundred productions as a model designer and assistant production designer. As a production designer at the Mariinsky Theatre he has staged the first production of Parsifal (1995), reconstructed the design of the 1862 production of La forza del destino (1998) and of the 1890 production of The Sleeping Beauty (1999).

Among his recent productions at other theatres are: The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, Orango and Hypothetically Murdered at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre; The Nutcracker at the Musical Theatre of the Republic of Karelia and at the Staatsballet in Berlin etc. The designer’s works feature in the collections of the Museum of the History of St Petersburg, Russian art museums and private collections in the USA, France, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland. Member of the St Petersburg branch of the Union of Artists of Russia. At the Ural Opera Ballet designed the production of Swan Lake (2015), Giselle and La Naïade et le pêcheur (2017).