Anton Pomorev

Biography

In 2010 graduated from the Moscow Theatre Arts and Technology College as lighting director. In 2016 — from the faculty of set design and theatre technology at the Moscow Art Theatre School.

Since 2011 has worked at the Bolshoi Theatre. Since 2017 — has been a lighting designer.

Engaged in artistic and lighting design of gala concerts (including lighting design for concerts by artists of the Youth Opera Program and the Opera Ball of Elena Obraztsova on the Historic Stage). Created a lighting score for the concert performance of Tchaikovsky’s opera Mazeppa (2020) and the operetta Die Fledermaus by I. Strauss (2022).

As a lighting designer, he worked at the Moscow State Theatre “At the Nikitsky Gates”, designed performances in the theatres of Moscow (Moscow Drama Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya / now the Theatre on Bronnaya, the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre, the Praktika Theatre, the Khitrovka Cultural Centre).

For over ten years he has been working with lighting on theatre stages in more than seventy cities in Russia (including St Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Pskov, Syktyvkar and Vladimir), as well as in Australia (the Queensland Centre for the Performing Arts, Brisbane), Israel (Festival M.ART, the Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv), Belarus, Kazakhstan, Lithuania and Ukraine.

He supervised the adaptation of lighting and technical support for touring performances of Yana's Nine Brothers (opera by L. Pipkov) at the Sofia Opera (Bulgaria) and the ballet Le Corsaire by A. Adam for the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre.

Has worked with prominent theatre figures and lighting designers in Russia, Europe and the USA, including D. Ismagilov, G. Filshtinsky, R. Merkel, J. Tipton and A. Carletti.

Works in drama theatre:

The Queen of Spades based on the short story of the same name by A. Pushkin (the Vladimir State Drama Theatre, 2013)
Harbin-34 by M. Rozovsky (director Mark Rozovsky), Dear Elena Sergeyevna by L. Razumovskaya (director Olga Ageeva), Time to Love by N. Foster (director Milko Stoyanov) at the Moscow Theatre “At the Nikitsky Gates” (all in 2014)
Look Back in Anger by J. Osborn (the Khitrovka Cultural Centre, director Artyom Ustinov, the theatre STUDIA.Project, 2016)
Los árboles mueren de pie by A. Casona at the Theatre on Bronnaya, director Yuri Ioffe, 2016)
Beethoven by V. Pecheikin (Praktika Theatre, director Hugo Erikssen, 2017)
Cricket based on the short story by T. Tellegen (director Veronica Shakhova, 2015) and Demagogue by K. Fokin (director Hugo Erikssen, 2018) at the Aleksandrinsky Theatre (New Stage)
Long Day’s Journey into Night by E. O'Neill (the Volkov Russian State Academic Theatre, Yaroslavl; director Hugo Erikssen, 2019)
The Gamblers based on the play of the same name by N. Gogol (the Youth Theatre of the Komi Republic, Syktyvkar, director Hugo Erikssen, 2020)
Faust by C. Gounod (the National Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of Belarus, Minsk, director Anna Motornaya, 2020)
Woyzeck by G. Büchner (the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre, New Stage, director Hugo Erikssen, 2021)
The Death of Tarelkin based on the play of the same name by A. Sukhovo-Kobylin (the Pskov Academic Drama Theatre named after A. S. Pushkin, director Hugo Erikssen, 2021)