Georges Wakhévitch
16 agosto 1907 — 11 febbraio 1984 (76 anni)
Georges Wakhévitch (Georgy Leonidovich Vakhevich; August 18, 1907 in Odessa, Russian Empire – February 11, 1984 in Paris) was a Russian-born French art director.
The son of a naval engineer, he immigrated to France in 1921. He was grew up in Paris, where he studied painting. He was an assistant to film director Lazare Meerson in the 1920s.
Wakhévitch also designed sets and costumes for the theatre, the ballet, and the opera. His designs usually used vivid colours and successful sets for Covent Garden included Boris Godunov, Otello, Die Meistersinger and London's first ever staging of Verdi's Macbeth in 1960. He also provided Paris in 1956 with new sets for Gounod's Faust, replacing some in use for over half a century.
He was the father of avant-garde composer Igor Wakhévitch.
Source: Article "Georges Wakhévitch" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
The son of a naval engineer, he immigrated to France in 1921. He was grew up in Paris, where he studied painting. He was an assistant to film director Lazare Meerson in the 1920s.
Wakhévitch also designed sets and costumes for the theatre, the ballet, and the opera. His designs usually used vivid colours and successful sets for Covent Garden included Boris Godunov, Otello, Die Meistersinger and London's first ever staging of Verdi's Macbeth in 1960. He also provided Paris in 1956 with new sets for Gounod's Faust, replacing some in use for over half a century.
He was the father of avant-garde composer Igor Wakhévitch.
Source: Article "Georges Wakhévitch" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmografia
| 1983 | La tragédie de Carmen · as Production Designer |
| 1979 | Meetings with Remarkable Men · as Production Design |
| 1978 | Das Rheingold · as Production Designer |
| 1978 | Das Rheingold · as Costume Designer |
| 1978 | Il trovatore · as Costume Designer |
| 1974 | Otello · as Production Design |
| 1973 | Kleiner Mann - was nun? · as Production Designer |
| 1971 | Delusions of Grandeur · as Production Design |
| 1970 | King Lear · as Production Design |
| 1968 | Pagliacci · as Production Designer |
| 1968 | Carmen · as Costume Design |
| 1968 | Mayerling · as Production Design |
| 1967 | Oscar · as Production Designer |
| 1966 | Tender Scoundrel · as Art Director |
| 1966 | Monnaie de singe · as Production Design |
| 1966 | At the Theater Tonight · as Production Designer |
| 1966 | At the Theater Tonight · as Costume Designer |
| 1965 | The Lace Wars · as Production Designer |
| 1965 | The Lace Wars · as Costume Designer |
| 1965 | Crime on a Summer Morning · as Art Direction |
| 1964 | Backfire! · as Production Designer |
| 1964 | Diary of a Chambermaid · as Production DesignSu Plex |
| 1964 | Diary of a Chambermaid · as Costume DesignerSu Plex |
| 1963 | Banana Peel · as Production Designer |
| 1963 | Scorching Sands · as Set Decorator |
| 1963 | Scorching Sands · as Costume Design |
| 1962 | Crime Does Not Pay · as Set Decoration |
| 1962 | Crime Does Not Pay · as Costume Design |
| 1961 | Famous Love Affairs · as Production Design |
| 1961 | King of Kings · as Costume Design |
| 1961 | Don Giovanni · as Production Designer |
| 1961 | Don Giovanni · as Costume Designer |
| 1960 | Black Tights · as Production Designer |
| 1960 | Black Tights · as Costume Design |
| 1959 | Marie-Octobre · as Art Direction |
| 1958 | Clara et les méchants · as Art Direction |
| 1958 | Dangerous Games · as Production Designer |
| 1958 | The Female · as Production Design |
| 1958 | The Female · as Costume Design |
| 1958 | Me and the Colonel · as Art Direction |
| 1958 | Paris Holiday · as Production Design |
| 1958 | Tamango · as Costume Design |
| 1957 | Escapade · as Production Designer |
| 1956 | Don Juan · as Art Direction |
| 1956 | Don Juan · as Costume Design |
| 1955 | Marianne of My Youth · as Costume Designer |
| 1954 | Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves · as Production Design |
| 1954 | Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves · as Costume Designer |
| 1954 | Flesh and Desire · as Production Design |
| 1954 | Flesh and Desire · as Costume Designer |
| 1954 | Miss Nitouche · as Costume Design |
| 1953 | Innocents in Paris · as Production Design |
| 1953 | The Beggar's Opera · as Production Design |
| 1953 | The Beggar's Opera · as Costume Design |
| 1952 | Pleasures of Paris · as Production Designer |
| 1952 | The Seven Deadly Sins · as Production Design |
| 1952 | Leathernose · as Production Designer |
| 1951 | Bluebeard · as Production Designer |
| 1951 | Barbe-Bleue · as Production Designer |
| 1951 | Barbe-Bleue · as Costume Designer |
| 1951 | The Medium · as Art Direction |
| 1950 | Don Juan · as Production Designer |
| 1950 | Miquette · as Production Design |
| 1950 | Miquette · as Costume Design |
| 1949 | Now Barabbas · as Art Direction |
| 1948 | Dance of Death · as Production Designer |
| 1948 | The Eagle with Two Heads · as Production Design |
| 1948 | Dedee · as Production Design |
| 1948 | Ruy Blas · as Production Design |
| 1947 | Miroir · as Production Designer |
| 1946 | The Room Upstairs · as Production Designer |
| 1946 | Dawn Devils · as Production Designer |
| 1946 | The Eternal Husband · as Production Design |
| 1945 | The Eleventh Hour Guest · as Art Director |
| 1945 | Box of Dreams · as Set Decoration |
| 1945 | La vie de bohème · as Production Designer |
| 1943 | L'éternel retour · as Production Design |
| 1943 | Le soleil a toujours raison · as Art Director |
| 1942 | The Devil's Envoys · as Production Designer |
| 1942 | The Devil's Envoys · as Costume Designer |
| 1942 | L'assassin a peur la nuit · as Art Direction |
| 1941 | Le club des soupirants · as Set Decorator |
| 1940 | Sérénade · as Production Design |
| 1939 | Personal Column · as Art Direction |
| 1939 | The Last Turning · as Production Designer |
| 1939 | Louise · as Production Design |
| 1938 | Conflit · as Set Decoration |
| 1938 | It Happened in Gibraltar · as Production Design |
| 1938 | Belle Étoile · as Production Designer |
| 1938 | Sirocco · as Production Designer |
| 1938 | La Marseillaise · as Production Design |
| 1938 | Prison sans barreaux · as Production Designer |
| 1937 | Feu! · as Production Designer |
| 1936 | Nitchevo · as Production Designer |
| 1935 | Carnival in Flanders · as Set Decorator |
| 1934 | Madame Bovary · as Set Decorator |
| 1934 | Les filles de la concierge · as Production Design |
| 1933 | L'homme à l'Hispano · as Production Design |
| 1933 | A Man's Head · as Art Direction |
| 1932 | Love in Morocco · as Art Direction |