Lyubov Sidelnikova

Lyubov Sidelnikova was born in Minsk.  

She graduated from the Glebov Art School (teacher of painting and drawing) in 1987 and from the Belarusian Academy of Arts (theatrical scenic painting) in 1994.

In 2007-2010 Lyubov Sidelnikova worked as the principal designer of the Belarusian State Academic Musical Theatre.

Lyubov Sidelnikova is a member of the Belarusian Union of Designers, regular participant of Republican exhibitions (iconography, graphics and painting), participant of the Prague Quadrennial, etc.

Since 2019 she has been working at the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus.
In 2023 she was promoted to chief set designer of the theatre.

Artistic awards:

-Laureate of the 12^th Igor Ushakov Republican Competition of Theatre Designers for The Night Bell by Gaetano Donizetti (2012);

-Certificate of honour of the Administration of the Moscow district of Minsk for many years of fruitful work, high professionalism and significant contribution to the preservation and development of the Belarusian theatrical art (2017);

-Laureate of the 17^th Igor Ushakov Republican Competition of Theatre Designers for the best stage setting of The Snow Queen by Gelsyat Shaidulova (2017);

-Gratitude of the Minsk City Council of Deputies for high professional skills, personal contribution to the aesthetic education of the population, popularization of classical choreographic art (2019).

In January-February 2012, Lyubov Sidelnikova’s personal exhibition "Stage Space" took place at the State Museum of the History of Theatrical and Musical Culture of the Republic of Belarus. The exhibition included set designs, models and costumes created by Lyubov Sidelnikova in 1995-2011.

Lyubov Sidelnikova’s works with the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus include:

2020  Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg (choreographer Sergey Mikel);

2020  Pinocchio by Gloria Bruni (director Natalia Baranovskaya);

2021  The Little Humpbacked Horse by Rodion Shchedrin (choreographer Yury Trayan);

2021  Bastien und Bastienne by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (director Natalia Kuzmenkova);

2022  Mozart and Salieri by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (director Oleg Melnikov);

Costumes: L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti (director Anna Motornaya).

2023 Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (director Anna Motornaya)

Her other works (sets and costumes) include:

1994: Le Malentendu by Albert Camus (Minsk Regional Drama Theatre, Molodechno, directed by Valery Raevsky)

1995: Black Square by Michaś Klimkovič and Miroslaw Adamczyk (Republican Theatre of Belarusian Drama, directed by Alexander Gartsuev)

1996: New Jokes (Trade Union Palace of Culture, directed by Gennady Davydko)

1997: Dwarf Nose by Wilhelm Hauff (Janka Kupała National Academic Theatre, directed by Natalia Basheva)

1997: Magic Music by Mark Minkov (National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus, directed by Galina Galkovskaya)

1998: Death of Tarelkin by Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin (Janka Kupała National Academic Theatre, directed by Vladimir Savitsky)

2000: Autumn Sonata by Ingmar Bergman (Janka Kupała National Academic Theatre, directed by Vladimir Savitsky)

2003: La Fille mal gardée by Ferdinand Hérold (National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of the Republic of Belarus, choreography by Dietmar Seiffert)

2003: The City of Masters by Gennady Gladkov (National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus, directed by Galina Galkovskaya)

2005: Adventures of Mishutka and his Friends in the Land of Fairy Tales (Belarusian State Academic Theatre for Young Audience, directed by Natalia Basheva)

2006: Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Minsk Regional Drama Theatre, Molodechno, directed by Antonina Mikhaltsova)

2008: Kashchey the Immortal by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus, directed by Galina Galkovskaya)

2010: Fantasy by Vladimir Kuryan (Opera Studio of the Belarusian State Academy of Music, directed by Anna Motornaya)

2011: La bohème by Giacomo Puccini (Opera Studio of the Belarusian State Academy of Music, directed by Anna Motornaya)

2011: Jack Frost (Karaganda Academic Theatre of Musical Comedy, directed by Susanna Ziruk)

2012: The Heart of Corsican (Karaganda Academic Theatre of Musical Comedy, directed by Susanna Ziruk)

Sets:

2002: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Boris Pavlovsky (National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus, directed by Natalia Furman)

2011: Tumulus by Vladimir Mulyavin and Igor Luchenok (on the stage of the Belarusian State Academy of Music, artistic director of the project was Andrey Skorinkin)

2011: The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad, directed by Oleg Melnikov)

Her works with the Belarusian State Academic Musical Theatre include:

2008: Ball of flowers by Frederic Chopin, Edvard Grieg and Robert Moran (directed by Natalia Furman)

2009: The Country Wives' revolt by Eugene Ptichkin (directed by Alexander Isaev and Anastasia Grinenko)

2010: Hello Broadway (directed by Anastasia Grinenko)

2010: My Wife is a Liar by Vadim Ilyin and Vladlen Lukashov (directed by Galina Galkovskaya)

2010: Arshin Mal Alan by Uzeyir Hajibeyov (directed by Hafiz Guliyev)

2011: The Night Bell by Gaetano Donizetti (directed by Anna Motornaya)

2011: Hits of the Neapolitan Quarter (directed by Susanna Tsiryuk)

2011: Alladin's Magic Lamp by Mark Samoilov (directed by Susanna Tsiryuk)

2011: Magic Clock, or Who Will Save the New Year by Elena Atrashkevich (directed by Anastasia Grinenko)

2012: Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo (directed by Anna Motornaya)

Lyubov Sidelnikova is the designer of the new version of Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite and divertissement from Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker (2011); set and costume designer of the theatrical gala concert " New Year's Cabaret"(2011) and Emmerich Kalman’s operetta Mr. X (2013); costume designer of the vaudeville The True Story of Lieutenant Rzhevsky by Vladimir Baskin.