Elena Zaytseva

Elena Zaytseva was born in Saint-Petersburg. In 1991 she completed her studies at the faculty of theatre production at the Saint-Petersburg Academy of Theatre Art. From 1990 until 1995 she worked at Lenfilm studio, St Petersburg. From 1995 until 2001 she worked as Chief Specialist in Design at Mariinsky Theatre. In 2001-2003 she was Head of the Costume Department for the New Opera Company. In 2003 she joined the Bolshoi Theatre as Head of the Costume Department and designed the costumes for operas such as "Lady Macbeth von Mzensk" (2004), "Le Corsaire" (2007), "Wozzeck" (2009), "Don Giovanni" (2010), "Petruschka" (2010) und "Ruslan und Ljudmila" (2011).

Since then she realised costumes for Modest Mussorgski´s "Chowanschtina" (Bayerische Staatsoper), "Lady Macbeth von Mzensk" (Deutsche Oper am Rhein), Giuseppe Verdi´s "Macbeth" (opera in Nowosibirsk and Opèra Bastille). In 2013 she designed the costumes for Dmitri Tscherniakov´s production of Rimsky-Korsakow´s "Die Zarenbraut" (Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin and Teatro alla Scala) and Alexander Borodin´s "Fürst Igor" (Metropolitan Opera New York). 2014/15 she realised the costume design for Tcherniakov´s prodcution of Verdi´s "Il trovatore" (Mikhailovsky-Theatre Sankt Petersburg) and Mozart´s "Don Giovanni" (Canadian Opera Company).

In the 2016/17 season she worked on the production “Senza Sangue/Bluebeard's Castle” at the Hamburg State Opera, in 2021 she designed the costumes for “Elektra” and in 2023 for “Salome”.