Rouben Ter-Arutunian
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Born | (1920-07-24)July 24, 1920 Tiflis, Georgia Originally from an Armenian family ,Ռուբէն Տէր-Յարութիւնեան |
Died | October 17, 1992(1992-10-17) (aged 72) New York City, U.S. |
Occupation | costume & scenic designer |
Years active | 1940–1980 |
Awards | Tony Award for Best Costume Design, 1959 |
Rouben Ter-Arutunian(Ռուբէն Տէր-Յարութիւնեան) (July 24, 1920 – October 17, 1992) was an American-Armenian costume and scenic designer for dance, opera, theater and television.[1]
Biography
Born in Tiflis (now Tbilisi), Georgia, he attended the Reimann Art School (Berlin) from 1939 to 1941, studied film music at the Hochschule fur Musik (Berlin) and took courses at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University (Berlin), 1941–43, and at the University of Vienna, 1943-44.
He first designed costumes for dancers of the Berlin Staatsoper in 1940, going on to design for the Dresden Opera and the Vienna State Opera. He moved to New York in 1951, which started his twenty-five year association with George Balanchine and New York City Ballet.[2] In 1964 he designed the sets for the New York City Ballet production of The Nutcracker.[3] He worked with the New York City Opera company, Hamburg State Opera, La Scala in Milan, the Opera-Comique in Paris and the Spoleto Festival in Italy.
He designed either costumes or sets, sometimes both, for 24 Broadway productions. His first production on Broadway was Measure for Measure in 1957, and his last was Goodbye Fidel in 1980.
Awards and legacy
He won the 1959 Tony Award for Best Costume Design for the musical Redhead, and was nominated for the Tony Award three times for Scenic Design and one other Tony for Costume Design.
The Rouben Ter-Arutunian Design Portfolios and the Rouben Ter-Arutunian Papers are held by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.[4]
Broadway work (selected)
- Measure for Measure (1957)
- Redhead (1959) — Tony Award for Best Costume Design
- Advise and Consent (1961) — Tony Award Best Scenic Design (Dramatic) (nominee)
- A Passage to India (1962) — Tony Award Best Scenic Design (nominee)
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1964) — Tony Award Best Costume Design (nominee)
- Goodtime Charley (1975) — Tony Award Best Scenic Design (nominee)
- Goodbye Fidel (1980)
References
External links
- Rouben Ter-Arutunian at the Internet Broadway Database
- Biography at filmreference.com
- Internet Off-Broadway Database listing
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- Lucinda Ballard (1947)
- Mary Percy Schenck (1948)
- Lemuel Ayers (1949)
- Aline Bernstein (1950)
- Miles White (1951)
- Irene Sharaff (1952)
- Miles White (1953)
- Richard Whorf (1954)
- Cecil Beaton (1955)
- Alvin Colt (1956)
- Cecil Beaton (1957)
- Motley: Margaret Harris, Sophie Harris and Elizabeth Montgomery (1958)
- Rouben Ter-Arutunian (1959)
- Cecil Beaton (1960)
- Lucinda Ballard (1962)
- Anthony Powell (1963)
- Freddy Wittop (1964)
- Patricia Zipprodt (1965)
- Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss (1966)
- Patricia Zipprodt (1967)
- Desmond Heeley (1968)
- Loudon Sainthill (1969)
- Cecil Beaton (1970)
- Raoul Penè Du Bois (1971)
- Florence Klotz (1972)
- Florence Klotz (1973)
- Franne Lee (1974)
- Geoffrey Holder (1975)
- Florence Klotz (1976)
- Theoni V. Aldredge / Santo Loquasto (1977)
- Edward Gorey (1978)
- Franne Lee (1979)
- Theoni V. Aldredge (1980)
- Willa Kim (1981)
- William Ivey Long (1982)
- John Napier (1983)
- Theoni V. Aldredge (1984)
- Florence Klotz (1985)
- Patricia Zipprodt (1986)
- John Napier (1987)
- Maria Björnson (1988)
- Claudio Segovia and Héctor Orezzoli (1989)
- Santo Loquasto (1990)
- Willa Kim (1991)
- William Ivey Long (1992)
- Florence Klotz (1993)
- Ann Hould-Ward (1994)
- Florence Klotz (1995)
- Roger Kirk (1996)
- Judith Dolan (1997)
- Julie Taymor (1998)
- Lez Brotherston (1999)
- Martin Pakledinaz (2000)
- William Ivey Long (2001)
- Martin Pakledinaz (2002)
- William Ivey Long (2003)
- Susan Hilferty (2004)