YOLANDA SONNABEND – SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER

Yolanda studied painting and stage design at the Slade School of Fine Arts where she now acts as a visiting Tutor. She has lectured at both Wimbledon School of Art and the State University of New York and Buffalo and is currently lecturing at the Slade in London. Yolanda has had many exhibitions at RBA Gallaries, Woodstock Gallery, Hazlett Gallery, Wright Hepburn Gallery, British Theatre Museum and in cities such as Paris, Rome, Verona, Cologne, Basel, Milan.

BALLET:

FOR ROYAL OPERA HOUSE:

MACMILLAN REVIVAL, 2000: “RITUALS”, “CONCERTO”

FOR KENNETH MACMILLAN:

“SYMPHONY”; “RITUALS”; “GLORIANA”; “MY BROTHERS MY SISTER”; “PLAYGROUND” (Royal Opera

House, Covent Garden); “REQUIEM” (Stuttgart Ballet Company); “VALLEY OF THE SHADOWS”;

“DIFFERENT DRUMMER” (Royal Opera House); “SWAN LAKE” (Royal Ballet.); “LA BAYADERE” (La Scala

Milan and Covent Garden); “CONCERTO” (National Theatre of Portugal)

FOR PETER WRIGHT:

“A BLUE ROSE” (Royal Opera House); “ENTWURFE FUR TANZE”; “NACHTPFAUENAUGE” (Staatsoper

Stuttgart) also “THE GREAT PEACOCK” and “TRIAL”

FOR MICHAEL CORDER:

“THREE PICTURES” Sadlers Wells; “L' INVITATION AU VOYAGE” Royal Ballet and “DANSES

CONCERTANTES” Hong Kong Ballet; “ORPHEUS” Den Norske Opera, “NUTCRACKER” Ballet du Rhin;

“DREYFUS” Stadkasse, Bonn; “CONCERTO” Theatre De L'Opera Nice.

FOR K-BALLET:

“ROMEO AND JULIET”; “SWAN LAKE”; “BEETHOVEN'S NO.9”; “THE NUTCRACKER”, “LE CORSAIRE”

OPERA:

“CINDERELLA” (an Operetta for the Lindsay Kemp Co.); “DIARY OF A MADMAN”; “ORFEO” (Sadlers

Wells); “TURN OF THE SCREW” (Aldeburgh Festival and European Tour); “ERISMENA” (Royal Academy

of Music); “EURIDICE” (Riverside Studios); “PLATEE” (Musica Melchiosono)

THEATRE:

“ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA” (RSC Barbican); “THE ORESTEIA”; “THE MAIDS”; “THE MAD WOMAN OF

CHAILLOT”; “THE BLACKS”; “HENRY IV” - PART I (Ludlow Festival); “PHEDRE”; “THE TEMPEST”; “THE SEA AND THE MIRROR”; “OTHELLO”; “ELECTRA”; “THE TROJAN WOMEN”; “IPHIGENIA IN TAURUS”;

“MESSIAH” (Hampstead Theatre the Aldwych Theatre); “INTERMEZZO” (Greenwich Theatre)

TELEVISION:

“SEVEN DEADLY SINS” (Kenneth MacMillan) for Granada Television)

“LETTERS HOME” (Director Andrew Snell) for Channel 4

FILM:

“THE TEMPEST” (Director Derek Jarman)

“DECADENCE” (Director Stephen Berkoff)