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 Graham Vick's 1997 production of Verdi's Macbeth at La Scala Milan |
Maria Bjornson was a remarkably hard working designer. She contributed work of a consistently high standard to over 120 projects. Below is a list of productions she worked on. |
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| Production | Composer/Writer | Director | Theatre/Location | |||
| The Phantom Of The Opera celebrated 20 years in London's West End on 9th October 2006 | ||||||
| The Phantom Of The Opera | Lloyd Webber | Harold Prince | Venetian, Las Vegas | |||
| The Little Prince | Francesca Zambello | Houston Grand Opera | ||||
| The Trojans | Berlioz | Francesca Zambello | Metropolitan, New York | |||
| Cunning Little Vixen | Janacek | David Pountney | La Scala, Milan | |||
| The Phantom Of The Opera | Lloyd Webber | Harold Prince | Madrid, Stuttgart | |||
| Don Giovanni | Mozart | Francesca Zambello | Royal Opera House | |||
 The Phantom Of The Opera - 'Masquerade Ball' |
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| Rise & Fall Of Mahagonny | Kurt Weill | G. Vick | Genoa | |||
| Cat On A Hot Tin Roof | Williams | Anthony Page | Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue | |||
| Tales Of Hoffman | Offenbach | John Schlesinger | Royal Opera House | |||
| Cherry Orchard | Chekov | Trevor Nunn | Royal National Theatre | |||
| The Phantom Of The Opera | Lloyd Webber | Harold Prince | Antwerp, Copenhagen, Mexico | |||
| Ernani | Verdi | Elijah Moshinsky | English National Opera | |||
| Der Rosenkavalier (costumes) | Strauss | John Schlesinger | Royal Opera House | |||
 Diana Rigg as Agrippina and Toby Stephens as Nero in Jonathan Kent's 1998 Almeida London production of Racine's Britannicus |
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| Plenty | David Hare | Jonathan Kent | Almeida, London | |||
| Phedre | Racine | Jonathan Kent | Almeida, London | |||
| Britannicus | Racine | Jonathan Kent | Almeida, London | |||
 Chorus of witches from Graham Vick's 1997 La Scala Milan production of Verdi's Macbeth |
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| The Phantom Of The Opera celebrated 10 years on Broadway on 26th January 1998 | ||||||
| Macbeth | Verdi | Graham Vick | La Scala, Milan | |||
 The poster for the La Scala production of Macbeth, which featured set and costume designs by Maria |
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| The Phantom Of The Opera celebrated 10 years in London's West End on 9th October 1996 | ||||||
| The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny | Kurt Weill | Graham Vick | Bastille, Paris | |||
| The Phantom Of The Opera | Lloyd Webber | Harold Prince | Basel | |||
Royal Ballet's 1994 Sleeping Beauty |
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| Don Giovanni | Mozart | Dalia Ibelhauptaite | Batignano Musica nel Chiostro, Italy | |||
| Sleeping Beauty | Tchaikovsky | Antony Dowell | The Royal Ballet | |||
| Katya Kabanova | Janacekd | Trevor Nunn | Royal Opera House | |||
| The Phantom Of The Opera | Lloyd Webber | Harold Prince | Manchester (UK Tour), Holland | |||
 Poster for the 1991 Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Blue Angel |
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| The Lulu Plays | Wedekind | Ian McDiarmid | Almeida, London | |||
| Cosi Fan Tutte | Mozart | Trevor Nunn | Glyndebourne | |||
| The Blue Angel | Pam Gems | Trevor Nunn | Royal Shakespeare Company & West End | |||
| Measure For Measure | Shakespeare | Trevor Nunn | Royal Shakespeare Company & Young Vic | |||
| The Phantom Of The Opera | Lloyd Webber | Harold Prince | Seattle | |||
 Cate Blanchett as Susan Traherne in Jonathan Kent's 1999 London production of David Hare's play Plenty for the Almeida season at the Albery Theatre. |
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| Aspects of Love | Lloyd Webber | Trevor Nunn | Prince of Wales Theatre, London & Broadway | |||
| The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny | Kurt Weil | Graham Vick | Teatro Verdi Maggio Musicale, Florence | |||
| The Marriage Of Figaro | Mozart | Nick Hytner | Grand Opera, Geneva | |||
| The Phantom Of The Opera | Lloyd Webber | Harold Prince | Toronto (Canadian Tour), Stockholm, Melbourne, Hamburg, Chicago | |||
| Cunning Little Vixen | Janacek | David Pountney | English National Opera | |||
| The Phantom Of The Opera | Lloyd Webber | Harold Prince | Theare an der Wien, Austria & Nissai, Tokyo | |||
 Showgirls from Cameron Mackintosh's production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies, directed by Mike Ockrent at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London 1987 |
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| Queen Of Spades | Tchaikovsky | David Pountney | English National Opera | |||
| House Of The Dead | Janacek | David Pountney | Scottish Opera | |||
| Follies | Sondheim | Mike Ockrent | The Shaftesbury Theatre, London | |||
| The Phantom Of The Opera | Lloyd Webber | Harold Prince | Majestic Theatre, NY | |||
| Creditors | Strindberg | Ian MacDiarmid | Almeida, London | |||
| The Phantom Of The Opera | Lloyd Webber | Harold Prince | Her Majesty's Theatre, London | |||
| Carmen | Bizet | David Pountney | English National Opera | |||
 Sally Burgess as Carmen in David Pountney's 1986 English National Opera production of Bizet's opera |
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| The Lonely Road | Schnitzler | Christopher Fetes | The Old Vic, London | |||
| Donnerstag Aus Licht | Stockhausen | Mike Bogdanov | Royal Opera House | |||
| Camille | Pam Gems | Ron Daniels | Comedy Theatre, London | |||
| Turn Of The Screw | Britten | Nick Hytner | Kent Touring Opera | |||
| Camille | Pam Gems | Ron Daniels | The Other Place, Royal Shakespeare Company | |||
| Der Rosenkavalier (costumes) | Strauss | John Schlesinger | Royal Opera House & Television | |||
| Hamlet | Shakespeare | Ron Daniels | Main House, Royal Shakespeare Company | |||
| The Gambler | Prokofiev | David Pountney | English National Opera | |||
| The Cunning Little Vixen | Janacek | David Pountney | Welsh National Opera & Television | |||
| Die Valkyrie | Wagner | David Pountney | English National Opera | |||
 English National Opera chorus in David Pountney's 1986 production of Bizet's Carmen |
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| Jenufa | Janacek | David Pountney | Canadian Opera Company | |||
| Katya Kabanova | Janacek | David Pountney | Welsh National Opera & Television | |||
| Werther | Massenet | Steven Pimlott | Opera North | |||
| The Tempest | Shakespeare | Ron Daniels | Main House, Royal Shakespeare Company | |||
| House Of The Dead | Janacek | David Pountney | Welsh National Opera | |||
| A Midsummer's Night Dream | Shakespeare | Ron Daniels | Main House, Royal Shakespeare Company | |||
| The Cherry Orchard | Chekhov | Patrick Garland | Chichester Festival | |||
| Jenufa | Janacek | David Pountney | Houston Grand Opera | |||
| Don Giovanni | Mozart | David Pountney | Opera North | |||
| Queen Of Spades | Tchaikovsky | David Pountney | De Nederlandse Operastichting | |||
 The ball scene in David Pountney's 1983 production of Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades for English Nation Opera |
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| Katya Kabanova | Janacek | David Pountney | Sydney Opera House | |||
| Cunning Little Vixen | Janacek | David Pountney | Welsh National Opera & Scottish Opera | |||
| Tales Of Hoffman | Offenbach | John Schlesinger | Royal Opera House & Television | |||
| Rigolletto | Verdi | Patrick Libby | Opera North | |||
| Ernani | Verdi | Elijah Moshinsky | Welsh National Opera | |||
| Don Giovanni | Mozart | David Pountney | Scottish Opera | |||
| Katya Kabanova | Janacek | David Pountney | Scottish Opera | |||
| The Golden Cockerel | Rimsky-Korsakov | David Pountney | Scottish Opera | |||
| The Way Of The World | Congreve | John Barton | Aldwych, Royal Shakespeare Company | |||
| The Bartered Bride (costumes) | Smetena | David Pountney | Scottish Opera | |||
| Seraglio (costumes) | Mozart | David Pountney | Scottish Opera | |||
| Vieux Carre (costumes) | Tennessee Williams | Keith hack | Piccadilly Theatre | |||
| Hansel And Gretel | Humperdink | Peter Ebert | Scottish Opera | |||
| Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg | Wagner | David Pountney | Sydney Opera House | |||
| The Makropulos Case | Janacek | David Pountney | Welsh National Opera & Television | |||
| Jenufa | Janacek | David Pountney | Scottish Opera & Houston grand Opera | |||
| Hedda Gabler | Ibsen | Keith Hack | Duke Of York's Theatre | |||
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | David Ward | David Pountney | English National Opera | |||
 Graham Clark as Hermann with chorus in David Pountney's 1983 English National Opera production of Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades |
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| Sons Of Light | Rudman | Keith Hack | Newcastle | |||
| Il Travatore | Verdi | Julian Hope | Welsh National Opera | |||
| School For Scandal | Sheridan | Phil Partridge | Watford Palace Theatre | |||
| Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg | Wagner | David Pountney | Scottish Opera | |||
| Queen Of Spades | Tchaikovsky | David Pountney | Kassel, Germany | |||
| The Golden Cockerel (costumes) | Rimsky-Korsakov | David Pountney | Scottish Opera | |||
| Jenufa | Janacek | David Pountney | Welsh National Opera | |||
| The Magic Flute (costumes) | Mozart | David Pountney | Scottish Opera | |||
| Holst's Double Bill | Holst | David Pountney | English Opera Group | |||
| Measure For Measure | Shakespeare | Keith Hack | Main House, Royal Shakespeare Company | |||
| La Rondine | Puccini | David Pountney | English Opera Group | |||
| Tanhauser (costumes) | Wagner | Michael Gelliot | Sydney Opera House | |||
| Wozzeck (costumes) | Berg | Michael Gelliot | De Nederlandse Operstichting | |||
| Anthony And Cleopatra (costumes) | Shakespeare | Tony Richardson | Bankside Globe | |||
 Maria Guleghina as Lady Macbeth in Graham Vick's 1997 La Scala Milan production of Verdi's Macbeth |
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| The Gambler | Prokofiev | David Pountney | Wexford Festival | |||
| Katya Kabanova (with Sue Blane) | Janacek | David Pountney | Wexford Festival | |||
| The Rake's Progress | Stravinsky | David Pountney | Scottish Opera | |||
| The Crucible | Miller | Stephen Dartnell | Glasgow Citizens Theatre | |||
| Jungle Of The Cities | Brecht | Keith Hack | Glasgow Citizens Theatre | |||
| Puss In Boots (with Sue Blane) | Giles Havergal | Glasgow Citizens Theatre | ||||
| The Threepenny Opera | Breaut & Weill | Richard Stroud | Glasgow Citizens Theatre | |||
| Timon Of Athens | Shakespeare | Keith Hack | Glasgow Citizens Theatre | |||
| Lear | Shakespeare | Stephen Dartnell | Glasgow Citizens Theatre | |||
| Life Of Galileo (with Sue Blane) | Brecht | Keith Hack | Glasgow Citizens Theatre | |||
| Three Sisters | Chekov | Giles Havergal | Glasgow Citizens Theatre | |||
| Cinderella (with Sue Blane) | Giles Havergal | Glasgow Citizens Theatre | ||||
| Tiny Alice | Albee | Robert David MacDonald | Glasgow Citizens Theatre | |||
| Scapino (costumes) | Goldini | Frank Dunlop | Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, London | |||
