Maria Stuarda
Maria Stuarda
Maria Stuarda
Maria Stuarda
Maria Stuarda
Maria Stuarda
Maria Stuarda
Maria Stuarda
Maria Stuarda
Maria Stuarda

Set Design and Costumes realised 

Maria Stuarda: Melbourne Opera proudly presents a new production of Donizetti’s dramatic masterpiece, not seen in Melbourne for more than 20 years.

Led by acclaimed Australian conductor and Donizetti specialist Richard Divall, the superb cast features Rosamund Illing as Queen Elizabeth 1 with Elena Xanthoudakis returning from London to make her debut as the doomed Mary Stuart. Henry Choo, Phillip Calcagno, Eddie Muliaumaseali’i and Caroline Vercoe are supported by the Melbourne Opera Chorus and Orchestra.

Company: Melbourne Opera

Venue: Atheaneum Theatre, Melbourne

Director: Suzanne Chaundy  Conductor: Richard Divall

Lighting Designer: Lucy Birkinshaw

**Costumes kindly hired from Opera Australia, designed by Jennie Tate

Maria Stuarda

  • Categories →
  • Theatre Design
  • Date →
  • November 2015
 

  • About Christina Logan-Bell

    Christina has been working as a free-lance theatre designer for 7 years in opera, musicals, dance and theatre.

    Whilst at secondary school, Christina’s love of theatre began through performing but also designing sets for the school productions. This interest in theatre continued through university completing a Bachelor of Performing Arts at Monash University majoring in Music, minor in Visual Arts. Christina then studied a Diploma of Design in Visual Merchandising at RMIT, and has recently completed a Post-Graduate in Theatre Design at the VCA. Since then Christina has been designing regularly for theatre throughout Melbourne

  • Christina designed the set and costumes for Flower Children, Hat Pin, Life’s a Circus, Stephen Schwartz Triptych, Sondheim Triptych, Jerry Herman Triptych (Magnormos). Cosi Fan Tutte (Melbourne Opera),
    True love Travels on a Gravel Road (15 minutes from Anywhere), As You Like it (Winterfall Theatre), Some Kind of Alaska (Winterfall Theatre), Oprahfication (Adam Lowe Group) and now invited to the New York Musical Theatre Festival 2014.

  • Christina’s costume Design credits include; Night School (VCA), Between Today and Tomorrow (VCA), Life’s a Circus (Magnormous). Costume design credits include; White with Wire Wheels (Melbourne Union Theatre) and Living Things (VCA puppetry) created by Peter Wilson, Disjointed Story and Lois and her Mother’s Secret Life (Cast and Crew Productions), Bow Wow Festival (The family Dog Circus), Triplicity (Weave Contemporary Dance Theatre), and As You Like it (Winterfall Theatre).

  • Rio Saki and Other Falling objects (Parnassus Den) Melburnalia II and Macbeth Re-arisen (White Whale Theatre -nominated for best Independent Production at the Green Room awards), War Lounge (The Bettybooke) and Men (Straight Jacket Productions). Christina was also head of the art department for a short film Red Water Red.

 
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