Gleb Filshtinsky

Biography

Born in Leningrad. Graduated from the stage direction faculty of the Saint-Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Art, specializing in theatre set design.

Has worked as a lighting designer on over 300 music and drama productions in Russia and abroad. Has created the lighting for numerous show programmes and light and pyrotechnic shows.
He’s a member of the Union of Theatre Workers of Russia and the All-Russian Association of Lighting Designers.

Over the years, he has worked as principal lighting designer with the Saint-Petersburg Theatre of Youth Art, the Saint-Petersburg Bryantsev Young Spectators’ Theatre, the Saint-Petersburg Drama and Comedy Theatre on Liteiny and the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre.

In 1996, together with Yevgeny Ginsburg, he established the creative workshop Lighting for Theatre.

Collaborates with the Opéra National de Paris, La Scala Theatre (Milan), Metropolitan Opera (New York), Teatro Real (Madrid), English National Opera (London), Berlin State Opera, Bavarian State Opera (Munich), Wiener Staatsoper, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Brussels), Opéra de Lyon, Hamburg State Opera, Deutsche Oper (Berlin), Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam), Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Zurich Opera, Latvian National Opera, Salzburg Opera Festival and Aix-en-Provence Festival.

He regularly works with the Bolshoi Theatre:
opera
The Rake’s Progress (Music Director and Conductor: Alexander Titov; Stage Director: Dmitri Tcherniakov, 2003)
Ruslan and Lyudmila (Music Director and Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov; Stage Director: Viktor Kramer, 2003)
Eugene Onegin (Music Director and Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov; Stage Director: Dmitri Tcherniakov, 2006)
Wozzeck (Music Director and Conductor: Teodor Currentzis; Stage Director: Dmitri Tcherniakov, 2009)
Don Giovanni (Music Director and Conductor: Teodor Currentzis; Stage Director: Dmitri Tcherniakov; co-production, premiered at the Bolshoi in 2010)
Ruslan and Lyudmila (Music Director: Vladimir Jurowski, Stage Director: Dmitri Tcherniakov, 2011)

ballet
Bolt (Choreographer: Alexei Ratmansky; Designer: Semyon Pastukh, 2005)

His works at the Mariinsky Theatre include:
opera productions
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia (Music Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Stage Director and Designer: Dmitri Tcherniakov, 2001)
Otello (Music Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Stage Director: Yuri Alexandrov, 2001)
Boris Godunov (Music Director: Valery Gergiev; Stage Director: Viktor Kramer, 2002)
Der Ring des Nibelungen (Artistic Supervisor of the productions: Valery Gergiev, 2002-2003)
The Nose and The Tsar’s Bride (Music Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Stage Director: Yuri Alexandrov, 2004)
The Snow Maiden (Music Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Stage Director: Alexander Galibin, 2004)
Carmen (Music Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Stage Director: Alexei Stepanyuk, 2005)
Tristan und Isolde (Music Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Stage Director: Dmitri Tcherniakov, 2005)
Mazeppa (Music Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Stage Director: Yuri Alexandrov, 2006)
Jenufa (Music Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Stage Director: Vasily Barkhatov, 2007)
The Gambler (Music Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Stage Director: Temur Chkheidze, 2007)
Otello (Music Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Stage Director: Vasily Barkhatov, 2007)
Christmas Eve (Music Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Stage Director: Olga Malikova , 2008)
The tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen (Music Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Stage Director: Alexander Zeldin, 2009)

ballet
Golden Age (Stage directors: Noah D Gelber and Andrei Prikotenko, 2006)

Regular collaborator with the director Dmitri Tcherniakov: The Rake’s Progress, Eugene Onegin, Wozzeck, Ruslan and Lyudmila (Bolshoi Theatre), Don Giovanni (co-production of the Bolshoi Theatre, the Festival international d’art lyrique d’ Aix-en-Provence, Teatro Real, Madrid and the Canadian Opera Company, Toronto), The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia (Mariinsky, Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam), A Life for the Tsar, Tristan und Isolde (Mariinsky Theatre), Aida (Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre/NOVAT), Khovanshchina, Dialogues des Carmélites, Simon Boccanegra (Bavarian State Opera in in Munich), Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde, Betrothal in a Monastery (State Opera Berlin), The Gambler (State Opera Berlin and La Scala), The Snow Maiden, Les Troyens, Iolanta (Paris National Opera), Carmen (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Deutsche Oper am Rhein), Prince Igor (Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam), Macbeth (Paris National Opera and NOVAT), Simon Boccanegra (English National Opera), Il Trovatore, The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels), Jenůfa, Die Sache Makropulos (Zurich Opera), Senza sangue (Without blood)/ Bluebeard’s Castle (Hamburg State Opera), Il Trovatore (Oper Köln).

Has also participated in productions of Maly Drama Theatre – the Theatre of Europe, Alexandrinsky Theatre, The Tovstonogov Grand Drama Theatre, The Baltic House Theatre Festival, Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, Boris Eifman Ballet Theatre, Mokhailovsky Theatre, Moscow Young Spectator Theatre, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Theatre, The Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre, The Chekhov MKhAT, Akimov Comedy Theatre, Et Cetera theatre under Alexander Kalyagin and Moscow Sovremennik Theatre among others.