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| Born in Athens, Yannis Kokkos lives since 1963 in France, where he completed his studies of scenography at the École Superieure d'Art Dramatique in Strasbourg. |
| His long and intensive collaboration as a set designer with the director Antoine Vitez started in 1969 and represented a fundamental stage in his career. This collaboration developed into several productions at the Comédie Française, at the Festival of Avignon, at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano and, between 1981 and 1988, at the Théâtre National de Chaillot, with works as Le Soulier de Satin, Electre, Hamlet. |
| His activity as set designer for opera theatres resulted in some very interesting mise-en scènes: Macbeth at the Opéra de Paris, Pelléas et Mélisande at the Teatro alla Scala, in Vienna and at the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden, La voix humaine at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Die Zauberflöte at the Wiener Staatsoper, Don Carlo at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Elektra by Richard Strauss at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva and San Francisco. Yannis Kokkos has also designed the set and costumes of the ballets Undine and L'Odysée at the Opéra of Hamburg, and Sylvia at the Palais Garnier with the choreography by John Neumlilr. |
| From 1987 Yannis Kokkos started his work as producer, alternating both theatre performances and lyrical and musical productions. Successful opera productions include Boris Godunov at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, at the Opéra Bastille and in Nice, Oresteïa by Xenakis at the Festival of Gibellina, Ariadne et Barbe-bleue by Paul Dukas at the Grand Théâtre of Geneva, La damnation de Faust at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Death in Venice in Nancy and at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège. Iphigénie and La Thébaïde by Racine at the Comédie Française, as well as Carmen, Tosca and Don Giovanni at the Festival Chorégies d'Orange. He also staged Tristan und Isolde at the Welsh National Opera of Cardiff and at Covent Garden, Salome and Pelléas et Mélisande in Bordeaux, Zelmira at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and at the Opéra de Lyon, Alceste and La dame de pique at the Scottish Opera, Norma at the Opéra Bastille, the world première of Tristes tropiques by George Aperghis in Strasbourg, Elektra at the Opéra de Lyon, Hänsel e Gretel at the Théâtre du Châtelet de Paris, Götterdämmerung for the opening of the 1998/9 season of the Teatro alla Scala under the baton of Riccardo Muti, Outis at the Théâtre du Chatelet and Der Fliegende Hollaender at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. He has just gained a great success and several approvals from both public and press, with his staging of Iphigénie en Aulide at the Teatro alla Scala. |
| In 1986 he was awarded by the «Prix du Syndacat de la Critique» for his staging of Elektra and, in 1987, by two Molières for the design of the Echange and the costumes of Madame de Sade, as well as by the golden medal of the Prague Quadriennal of Scenery Prime for the career. In 1998 the production of La clemenza di Tito, staged by Yannis Kokkos at the Opéra Bordeaux and at the Welsh National Opera, obtained the Laurence Olivier Prime as best lyrical work. |
| Among his future engagements it is worth mentioning Pelléas et Mélisande at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Dido et Aeneas in Nancy, Les Troyens at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and Les Rois, the new opera of Philippe Fénelon, which will be staged in Bordeaux. Yannis Kokkos will also return to Genève for Die Vögel and Haensel und Gretel, and to the Teatro alla Scala for the direction of Der Fliegende Hollaender. |
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