GEORGE SOUGLIDES

Born in Cyprus, he studied interior and theatre design in London. He has designed productions at the Salzburg Festival, Bregenz Festival, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Garsing- ton Opera Festival, Savonlinna Opera Festival (Finland), Edinburgh Festival and has worked with operas in Chicago, Rome, Lisbon, Scotland, North Ireland, Gothenburg, Bergen (Norway), Valencia, as well as with Opera North, Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre (Moscow), Royal Danish Opera, Ballet of the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Scottish Ballet, National Theatre of Greece, Cyprus Theatre Organisation, National Theatre of Northern Greece, etc. He has twice participated at the Prague Quadrennial and the exhibition “Collaborators” at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London). Currently, he is collaborating with Opéra de Nice, Opéra national de Lorraine, Teatro Regio (Turin) and Savonlinna Opera Festival. His previous work with the Greek National Opera includes Charis Vrontos’ The Possessed, L’elisir d’amore, Il prigionero, Orfeo ed Euridice, Cavalleria rusticana, I pagliacci, Serse, Così fan tutte, Carmen, Jenůfa, Falstaff and Don Quixote.