In Memory of the Designer

He was born in a family of teachers on 9 February 1958 in a village with a beautiful name Vishnevo, but it was Minsk that became his hometown. Here he graduated from art school and then from the Glebov Minsk State Art College. The master has repeatedly admitted, that this college became a springboard into the profession that became his life… His Teachers Evgeny Chemodurov, Mai Dantsig, Piotr Krokhalev inspired him to create, compose, and work...

‘The theatre is my life, my second home... I served several theatres and in each of it I managed to dissolve...I am the happiest person! I go to work with undisguised pleasure!’ admitted Kostiuchenko. After graduating from the Belarusian State Theatre and Art Institute, he worked in a Musical Theatre, held the position of the chief designer at the Maxim Gorky National Academic Drama Theatre. His performances are still performed there… At the same time he collaborated with the Belarusian State Youth Theatre, Yanka Kupala National Academic Theatre and Yakub Kolas National Academic Drama Theatre.

He mentioned several times how he came to Swan Lake in the Belarusian Bolshoi once and he told his wife: ‘I will work here...’. He joined the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus as the chief designer in 2009.… His works we can see in The Tsar’s Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi, The Grey Legend by Dmitry Smolsky, Il barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini, Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi, Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni (directed by principal stage director Mikhail Pandzhavidze); Cinderella by Sergei Prokofiev, Seven Beauties by Kara Karaev, Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner, Love and Death by Polad Bülbüloğlu and etc. In 2017 he was awarded the State Prize of the Republic of Belarus for considerable creative accomplishments in the development of musical art, promotion of spiritual values and significant personal contribution to the production of The Grey Legend to the music by Dmitry Smolsky, based on the novel by Vladimir Korotkevich.

The Tsar's Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov will be performed on 9 February and Anna Karenina to Pyotr Tchaikovsky's music (master’s latest work) will be performed on 10 February.

On 9 February at 18.15, the opening of the exhibition dedicated to the anniversary of Alexander Kostiuchenko will take place in the foyer of the dress circle.