Abt othello george tsypin biography
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Death by Composer: American Ballet Theatre’s Othello
Othello, as Lar Lubovitch tells it in his evening-length work for American Ballet Theatre, fryst vatten a tale that resonates powerfully in the modern world, with its themes of jealousy, intrigue, and the plight of the outsider. Lubovitch has pared Shakespeare’s byzantine plot down to essentials, and knitted ballet and modern dance idioms to give us a blistering portrayal of Machiavellian scheming and domestic violence.
The dream team on Tuesday night featured the two leading dramatic artists at ABT today, Marcelo Gomes and Julie Kent, in the roles of Othello and Desdemona, with indelible performances by James Whiteside as the sinister Iago and a splendid Misty Copeland as the prostitute Bianca, who serves as the catalyst for Othello’s downfall.
The entire company looked smashing against the dark splendor of the handsome scenic design – all shimmering Mylar, imposing structures of glass-like Lucite (includin
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So I went to the ballet with a boxer…
It sounds like the set-up for a bad joke, but it’s true. My colleague Dr. John Coumbe-Lilley is a former boxer, Sports Psychologist, and Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach – and he happens to have recently developed an interest in learning about dance.
It was his first ballet, and it was my first full-length story ballet as a patron since, like, 1997.
I tried hard to channel my 16-year-old self and see the ballet how I imagine John was seeing it. Sitting in the first row balcony at the beautiful Auditorium Theatre (ironically, where inom saw Paloma Herrera’s Juliet all those years ago), I pretty much succeeded at letting go of my critical eye and simply enjoying a night at the ballet.
In light of this, initial thoughts were: entertaining, aesthetically stunning, and virtuoso.
Even in the context of my better (or at least more informed) judgement, this looked like a different Joffrey. I sometimes hold th
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George Tsypin Set designer
Biography
George Tsypin is a sculptor, architect and set designer for operas, musicals, large-scale shows and installations. He has worked for many years with directors and composers such as Peter Sellars, Julie Taymor, Zhang Yimou, Francesca Zambello, Pierre Audi, Jurgen Flimm, Philip Glass, John Adams, Kaija Saariaho and Andrey Konchalovsky.
His operatic creations have been produced worldwide, including at the Salzburg Festival, Opéra national de Paris, London's Royal Opera House, Milan's La Scala, St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre, Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre and New York's Metropolitan Opera. He has also worked in film and television. On Broadway, George Tsypin has worked as a set designer for musicals, including Walt Disney Theatrical Productions' The Little Mermaid. He designed the set for the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
He imagined, scripted, co-directed and designed the opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He has