Tatyana van Walsum Costume designer

Biography

Tatyana van Walsum studied theater design in London, at the Wimbledon School of Art and the Motley Theatre Design Academy. She designs sets and costumes from her Amsterdam-based studio. She regularly collaborates with choreographers such as Krzysztof Pastor, Dominique Dumais, Kevin O'Day and Juanjo Argues, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, which has led her to perform with companies worldwide, including Dutch National Ballet, Polish National Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Toronto Ballet Company, Australian Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Swedish Royal Ballet and Chicago's Joffrey Ballet.

She has received numerous awards, including the Benois de la danse prize for best scenography (Le Jour Même by the Lyon Opera Ballet) and the Green Room Award for best ballet design (Symphonie fantastique by the Australian Ballet).

In 2003, Tatyana van Walsum created the sets and costumes for Nigel Warrington's staging of Così fan tutte for the Aarhus Festival in Denmark, which won the Reumert Pris Award for best opera production of the year. In opera, she also designed the sets and costumes for Aida directed by Shirin Neshat at the Salzburg Festival 2017, Don Giovanni directed by Demis Volpi at the Weimar Opera in 2018, and Echnaton for Giuseppe Spota at the Dortmund Opera in 2019.

More recently, she has collaborated on Echoes of van Gogh choreographed by Wubkje Kundersma for West Australian Ballet in 2023, Full Frontal by Juanjo Arques at Dutch National Ballet in 2023 and A Kiss to the world choreographed by Dominique Dumais for Ballet am Rheim in 2024.

Tatyana van Walsum has designed numerous exhibitions, notably for the Amsterdam Museum, the Museum Het Rembrandthuis and the Paleis Het Loo in Apeldoorn. She teaches at the Academy for Theatre Studies in Amsterdam and at the Sandberg Master Academy for Opera Studies.

Debut at the Opéra national de Paris

Immerse in the Paris Opera universe

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