Gleb Filshtinsky

• Winner of Latvia's National Prize for theatrical art (1996, 2005)
• Winner of the Golden Mask (2004, 2007)

Born In Leningrad, he graduated from the Production Faculty of the St Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Art (formerly LGITMiK) as a specialist In theatrical and applied art. He mastered his profession while working at the Theatre of Youth Art in St Petersburg, where he presented his first production as a lighting designer (Farenheit 451, 1990). At various times he has been the chief lighting designer at the St Petersburg Theatre of Youth Art, the Interstudio Workshops of Puppetry and Plastic Theatre, the A. Bryantsev St Petersburg Theatre of Young Audiences, the St Petersburg Theatre of Drama and Comedy on Liteiny, The G.A. Tovstonogov Bolshoy Drama Theatre, and at the Alexandrinsky Theatre. He is currently lighting designer at the Maly Drama Theatre – Theatre of Europe and head of the Light for Theatre St Petersburg Creative Workshop.

He is a member of the Russian Union of Theatrical Workers and of the All-Russian Association of Lighting Designers.

Gleb Filshtinsky has developed lighting designs for numerous shows, firework displays, and large public celebrations. He has worked as lighting designer on over 300 musical and dramatic productions in theatre both in Russia and abroad, among them the Moscow Theatre of Young Audiences, the Novosibirsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Bolshoy Theatre, the Chekhov Moscow Arts Theatre, the Alexandrinsky Theatre, the Latvian National Opera, the Boris Eifman Theatre of Ballet, the National Theatre of Korea, the Tostanogov Bolshoy Drama Theatre, La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Berlin State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the German Opera on the Rhine, and many more. He is a regular collaborator with the Bolshoy Theatre. His productions include: The Rake's Progress, Ruslan and Lyudmila, Bolt, Eugene Onegin, Aida, Khovnashchina, and others.

Gleb Filshtinsky's latest works for the Mariinsky Theatre are: Othello, Boris Godunov, Der Ring des Nibelungen, The Nose,The Tsar's Bride, Carmen, Jenufa and also productions for the director Dmitry Chernyakov - The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia, A Life for the Tsar and Tristan und Isolde.