The life & death of alexander Litvinenko, 2021 

Amelia was hired to work as the associate designer to Will Duke for the video design for ‘Litvinenko’, an opera for Grange Park Opera in the summer.

This real-life story is told through a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards covering events in Russia that lead Litvinenko to seek exile and his family’s life in Muswell Hill. Extensive use is made of historic film footage.

Creatives

Conductor: Stephen Barlow

Director: Stephen Medcalf

Designer: Jamie Vartan

Video design: Will Duke

Video design associate: Amelia Kosminsky

Video design associate: Hayley Egan

Movement: Lynne Hockney

Lighting Designer: John Bishop

CAST

Alexander Litvinenko: Adrian Dwyer
Marina Litvinenko: Rebecca Bottone
Boris Berezovsky: Stephan Loges
Head of KGB: James Laing
Anna Politkovskaya: Olivia Ray
Andrei Lugovoy: Edmund Danon

Male 1                     Joseph Buckmaster
Male 2                     John Ieuan Jones
Male 3                     Phil Wilcox