Josef Jelínek

Josef Jelínek is a graduate of the College of Performing Arts in Bratislava. After working for the Municipal Theatre in Zlín, since 1983 he has designed costumes on a regular basis for the National Theatre and the Prague State Opera. He holds various awards from Czechoslovakia and abroad, including the Young Set Designer’s Award, the Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, and gold medals from the Triennial in Nový Sad and the PQ in 1983, and the Czech Lion 2002. He has to his credit costume designs for more than 800 productions in Prague, Bratislava, Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň, Berlin, Monte Carlo, Ljubljana, Leeds, Bergen, Buenos Aires, Santa Fé, Sevilla and elsewhere, and has also shared as costume designer in Petr Weigl’s musical films. Occasionally he also designs sets, especially for ballet. During the existence of the Prague State Opera he has created costume designs for many productions, including most notably Rienzi, Otello, Salome, Un ballo in maschera, Nabucco, Aida, Boris Godunov, Il trovatore, Robert le Diable, Turandot, Orlando furioso, Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor, Manon Lescaut, Vivat operetta!, Don Quichotte, Giselle, and from the Czech operas Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová, in two productions, Jenůfa, and Dvořák’s Rusalka.