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Maria Björnson designed extensively for theatre, opera and ballet. In 1979 and 1988, she was part of the British theatre design team awarded the Golden Troika Prazké Quadriennale.In 1983, she was awarded the Silver Medal for the Janacek Competition Prazké Quadriennale. In 1990, she was awarded TheObserver’s Experts’ Expert, the Designers’ Designer, in recognition of her contribution to theatre design. In 1999, she was awarded the 19th Franco Abbiati Prize. She received numerous awards for her The Phantomof the Opera designs, among them two Tony Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and two Los Angeles Drama Critics Awards, all for Best Costume and Set. At the time of her death, Maria had completed designs for The Trojans (New York Met); The Little Prince (Houston Grand Opera) and the set designs for Il trovatore (Paris Opera). All three productions were directed by Francesca Zambello in 2003.Musical theatre includes: The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre, Broadway, and nationally and internationally); Aspectsof Love (Prince of Wales Theatre and Broadway) and Follies (Shaftesbury).Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard (RNT); Measure for Measure, The BlueAngel, Camille, Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Way of the World (RSC); Plenty, Phedre, Britannicus, The Lulu Plays and Creditors (Almeida); Cat on a HotTin Roof (Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue); The Lonely Road (Old Vic); The CherryOrchard (Chichester Festival Theatre); Vieux Carre (Piccadilly); Hedda Gabler (Duke of York’s) and Antony andCleopatra (Globe).Opera includes: Don Giovanni, SleepingBeauty, Katya Kabanova and DerRosenkavalier (Royal Opera House); Macbeth (La Scala); Rise and Fall ofthe City of Mahagonny (Bastille Opera and Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence); Don Giovanni (Musica nel Chiostro, Batignano); Cosi fan tutte (Glyndebourne); Le nozze di Figaro (Geneva); Carmen, Die Walkure and Toussaint L’Ouverture (English National Opera); Donnerstag aus Licht (Royal Opera House, Stockhausen); The Queenof Spades (Netherlands Opera); Werther (Opera North); the Janaček Cycle (Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera) and Don Giovanni, Hansel and Gretel and Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Scottish Opera).Maria Björnson is a registered trademark of the Prodan Romanian Cultural Foundation and is used under licence.
