Theatre costume

Born to a Greek family in Ethiopia, the influential opera designer Stefanos Lazaridis was educated in Addis Ababa and Geneva, and came to London in 1962 to attend business school but studied design instead at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His first professional design was for Tennessee Williams's Eccentricities of a Nightingale (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, 1967), and his first opera Carmen (Sadler's Wells Opera, 1970) for director John Copley. His gold-encrusted Aida directed by John Copley (ENO, 1979), for which Lazaridis designed sets and costumes, was the first Aida produced by the English National Opera for forty years. Described by one critic as 'grand opera gone wild',

Theatre costume · 1979. By Lazaridis, Stefanos. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.