About
Damir Ismagilov is the main lighting designer of the Moscow art theatre. Chekhov, Bolshoi theatre, Honored worker of culture of the Russian Federation (2002), Honored artist of the Russian Federation (2008), Professor of the Moscow art theatre school.
Damir Ismagilov graduated from the Theatre art and technical school in 1978 and was hired as an illuminator at the Moscow Art theatre. In the future, he led the team of illuminators of the Small stage, where he began his creative activity as a lighting artist, working on the performances "Way", "Father and son", "trailer", "Equus", "tattooed rose".
In 1982-1987 he took part in the reconstruction of the theater building in Kamergersky lane, starting with the development of the project of equipping the stage with lighting equipment. He supervised the acceptance of installation and commissioning of the lighting complex of the Main stage. Subsequently, he participated in the construction of a New building of the Bolshoi theatre and reconstruction of the main stage of the Bolshoi theatre.
In 1987 he graduated from the production faculty of the Moscow art theatre school and became the chief lighting artist of Moscow art theatre. A. P. Chekhov. He has designed over 95 productions, among them "Boris Godunov", "the Cherry orchard", "Woe from wit", "Thunderstorm", "Marriage", "Masquerade", "Moscow choir", "Mishin anniversary", "a Lesson for wives", "Lesson to men", "Pearl Zinaida", "Three sisters," "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Yu", "Antigone", "the Sacred fire", "Retro", "Crime and punishment", "Zeros", "Copenhagen", "Siege", "Philistines", "the White guard", "playing the victim", "King Lear", "Forest", "Golovlevs", "Diva", "Man-pillow", "the Pickwick club".
Collaborated with leading domestic and foreign filmmakers, among them Oleg Yefremov, Oleg Tabakov, Lev Dodin, Valery Fokin, Sergei Zhenovach, Leonid Kheifets, Roman Viktyuk, mark Rozovsky, Kama Ginkas, Vladimir Andreev, Galina Volchek, Roman Kozak, Kirill Serebrennikov, Yelena Nevezhina, Tadashi Suzuki, Vladimir Petrov, Timur Chkheidze, Nikolai Sheiko, Mindaugas Karbauskis, Grigory Kozlov, Vladimir Petrov, Evgeny Pisarev and Konstantin Bogomolov. Embodied the ideas of artists-designers David Borovsky, Valery Leventhal, Sergei Barkhin, Martha Kitaeva, Oleg Sheintsis, Edward Kochergin, Alexander Borovsky, Tatiana Selvinskaya, Vyacheslav Okunev, Boris Messerer, of Alla Kozhenkova, Igor Popov, Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili, Charikova Yuri, Yuri Ustinov, Nikolai Simonov, and Zinovy Margolin.
Since 1996 he has been working at the Bolshoi theatre (since 2002 – chief lighting designer). In the years of working in the theatre has collaborated with such Directors and choreographers as Vladimir Vasilyev, Boris Pokrovsky, Peter Ustinov, Alexander Titel Boris Eifman, Peter Konvichny, Alexei Ratmansky, Sergei Vikharev, Eimuntas Nekrosius, Alla Sigalova, Irkin Gabitov, Yuri Burlaka, David Pountney, Dmitry Bertman. As the lighting designer produced the ballets "Swan lake", "Insomnia", "Russian hamlet", "Ward No. 6", "Paquita", "Class concert", "the Flames of Paris", "Cinderella»; Opera "Aida", "Iolanta", "Love of three oranges", "Khovanshchina", "Francesca da Rimini", "Nabucco", "Player", "snow maiden", "Macbeth", "Mazepa", "flying Dutchman", "children of Rosenthal", "War and peace", "Boris Godunov", "Carmen", "Queen of spades" and many others.
Chief lighting designer of the Helikon Opera theatre and the theatre art Studio. He works at the Mariinsky theatre, The Russian academic youth theatre, the Moscow Maly theatre and the Theatre. M. Yermolova, the Theater under the direction of Oleg Tabakov, the Theater of the Russian army, the Theater. A. S. Pushkin, Theatre. Moscow city Council, Moscow operetta, as well as in the leading theaters of St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Norilsk, Kazan, Ufa, Orel, Orenburg and Yekaterinburg.
In total, he designed more than 400 performances. Since 1987, he taught artistic and lighting design of the play at the Moscow theatre art and technical school; since 2000, he teaches theatrical lighting at the Moscow art theatre Studio School. The author of the book Theatre lighting (2005).