Dmitry Chernyakov
was born in Moscow in 1970. Graduated from the Russian Academy
of Theatre Art as an opera producer. Upon graduation he worked
at the Russian Drama Theatre of Lithuania (Vilnius). For the
next few years he mounted a number of operas and drama performances
in Russia and Baltic States theatres: Moscow, St.-Petersburg,
Novosibirsk, Vilnius, Samara, Kazan, Omsk etc., where scenography
and costume designs in all the performances belong to him.
Among his opera productions
the most interesting are as follows:
In 2001 he won the
Golden Mask national theatre prize for his production of “
The Legend of the Invisible city of Kitezh and Maiden Fevronia
" in the Best Staging and Best Production nominations.
