Rouben Ter-Arutunian Biography (1920-)

Surname is pronounced "Terr-ah-roo-too-ne-ahn"; born July 24, 1920, in Tiflis, U.S.S.R; immigrated to the United States in 1951; naturalized U.S. citizen,1957; son of Guegam (an attorney) and Anaida (Seylanian) Ter-Arutunian. Addresses: HOME--360 E. 55th Street, New York, NY 10022.

Rouben Ter-Arutunian's designs can be found among the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, both in New York City, in the Theatre Collection of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Nationality: Russian, American
Gender: Male
Birth Details: July 24, 1920; Tiflis

Famous Works

Credits
FIRST STAGE WORK--Costume designer, Berlin Staatsopr, Berlin, Germany, 1941.
Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE WORK
Costume designer, The Bartered Bride (opera), Dresden Volks Oper, DresdenOpera House, Dresden, Germany, 1942.
costume designer, Getanzte Malerei, Vera Mahlke Ballet Company, Dresden and Berlin, 1942.
costume designer, Salome, Vienna Volks Oper, Vienna Opera House, Austria,1944.
set and costume designer, Concerto (ballet), Opera Comique, Paris, France, 1950.
set and costume designer, Bluebeard Castle (opera) and L'Heure Espagnole(opera), both New York City Opera Company, City Center Theatre, New York City, 1952.
La Cenerentola (opera), The Trial (opera), and Hansel and Gretel (opera),all New York City Opera Company, City Center Theatre, 1953.
set and costume designer, Souvenirs (ballet), New York City Ballet, CityCenter Theatre, 1955.
set and costume designer, King John and Measure for Measure, both American Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, CT, 1956, then Phoenix Theatre, New York City, 1957.
set and costume designer, Othello and Much Ado about Nothing, and set designer, The Merchant of Venice, all American Shakespeare Festival, 1957.
set and costume designer, New Girl in Town, 46th Street Theatre, New YorkCity, 1957.
set designer, Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?, Martin Beck Theatre, NewYork City, 1958.
set designer, At the Grand, Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association, Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, then Curran Theatre, San Francisco, CA, both 1958.
set and costume designer, The Seven Deadly Sins (ballet), New York City Ballet, City Center Theatre, 1958.
set and costume designer, Masque of the Wild Man and The Scarf, both JohnButler Dance Theatre, Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, 1958.
set designer, Maria Golovin (opera), World's Fair, Brussels, Belgium, 1958, then Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, 1958, later La Scala, Milan, Italy, 1958, and City Center Theatre, 1959.
set and costume designer, Redhead, 46th Street Theatre, 1959.
set and costume designer, The Scarf and The Devil and Daniel Webster, allNew York City Opera Company, City Center Theatre, 1959.
Set designer, Advise and Consent, Cort Theatre, New York City, 1960.
set and costume designer, Twelfth Night and Antony and Cleopatra, both American Shakespeare Festival, 1960.
set and costume designer, Donnybrook!, 46th Street Theatre, 1961.
set and costume designer, Il trittico (opera), New York City Opera Company, City Center Theatre, 1961.
costume designer, Blood Moon (opera), War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA, 1961.
set designer, The Merry Widow (operetta), Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association, Philharmonic Auditorium, 1961.
set designer, Martha Graham's "Visionary Recital," retitled Samson Agonistes, Martha Graham Company, 54th Street Theatre, New York City, 1961.
set and costume designer, A Passage to India, Ambassador Theatre, New York City, 1962.
set designer, The Umbrella, New Locust Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, 1962.
set and costume designer, Swan Lake (ballet), San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco, 1962.
set and costume designer, Hot Spot, Majestic Theatre, New York City, 1963.
set and costume designer, "Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn" and "The LastMinstrel" in Two by Lorees Yerby (double-bill), Pocket Theatre, New York City, 1963.
set and costume designer, Arturo Ui, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City, 1963.
set and costume designer, Orpheus and Eurydice (opera), Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg, West Germany, 1963.
set and costume designer, The Play of Herod, the Cloisters, New York City, 1963.
set and costume designer, Souvenirs (ballet), Cologne Opera House, Cologne, West Germany, 1963.
set and costume designer, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1964.
set designer, The Deputy, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 1964.
set designer, The Merry Widow (operetta), New York Opera Company, State Theater, New York City, 1964.
set and costume designer, Swan Lake (ballet), and set designer, Ballet Imperial (ballet), and The Nutcracker (ballet), all New York City Ballet, StateTheatre, 1964.
Set and costume designer, Sargasso (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, 1965.
set and costume designer, Harlequinade (ballet), New York City Ballet, State Theatre, 1965.
set and costume designer, Lucifer (ballet), San Francisco Ballet, 1965.
set designer, The Nutcracker (ballet), Cologne Opera House, Cologne, WestGermany, 1965.
set designer, The Devils, Broadway Theatre, New York City, 1965.
set and costume designer, Ivanov, Shubert Theatre, New York City, 1966.
set and costume designer, Eh?, Circle in the Square, New York City, 1966.
set and costume designer, Ricercare (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, Metropolitan Opera House, 1966.
production designer, The Party on Greenwich Avenue, Cherry Lane Theatre,New York City, 1967.

set and costume designer, Macbeth, American Shakespeare Festival, 1967.
set designer, Exit, the King, Lyceum Theatre, New York City, 1968.
set designer, I'm Solomon, Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, 1968.
set and costume designer, Madame Butterfly (opera), and set designer, TheBassarids (opera), Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM, 1968.
set and costume designer, Requiem Canticle (ballet), New York City Ballet, State Theatre, 1968.
set designer, Ballet Imperial (ballet), Berlin Deutsche Opera, Berlin, West Germany, 1969.
set and costume designer, Souvenirs (ballet), Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria, then Harkness Ballet, Monte Carlo, both 1969.
production designer, The Devils of Loundun (opera), Santa Fe Opera, 1969.
production designer, The Dozens, Booth Theatre, New York City, 1969.
set designer, Promenade, Promenade Theatre, New York City, 1969.
set designer, Harbinger, Festival of Two Worlds, 1969.
set and costume designer, Transitions (ballet), Cologne Opera House, 1969.
Set and costume designer, The Minotaur (ballet), Boston Ballet, Boston, MA, 1970.
set and costume designer, The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore (ballet), Festival of Two Worlds, 1970.
set and costume designer, All Over, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, 1971.
set and costume designer, Chronochromie (ballet), Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg, West Germany, 1971.
set amd costume designer, Liebelei, Akademie Theatre, Vienna, 1972.
set and costume The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore (ballet), Cincinnati Symphony and Ballet, Cincinnati, OH, 1972.
set and costume designer, Concerto for Piano and Wind, The Song of the Nightingale, Chorale Variations--Von Himmel Hoch, and Symphony of Psalms, all Stravinsky Festival, New York City Ballet, State Theatre, 1972.
set and costume designer, Laborintus (ballet), Royal Ballet, Royal OperaHouse, London, 1972.
set and costume desinger, Pierrot Lunaire (ballet), Bavarian State OperaBallet, Munich, West Germany, 1972.
set and costume designer, Symphony in Three Movements, Cortege Hongrois,and An Evening's Waltzes, all New York City Ballet, State Theatre, 1973.
set and costume designer, Remembrances (ballet), Joffrey Ballet, City Center Theatre, 1973.
set and costume designer, Voluntaries (ballet), Stuttgart Ballet, Stuttgart, West Germany, 1973.
set and costume designer, Celebration (ballet) and The Art of the Pas-de-Deux (ballet), both Festival of Two Worlds, 1973.
set and costume designer, Pelleas and Melisande (ballet), La Scala, thenTeatre La Fenice, Venice, Italy, both 1973.
set and costume designer, Variations pour une porte et un soupir (ballet)and Coppelia (ballet), both New York City Ballet, State Theatre, 1974.
set and costume designer, La Sonnambula, San Francisco Ballet, 1974.
Set designer, Goodtime Charley, Palace Theatre, New York City, 1975.
set and costume designer, Days in the Trees and The Lady from the Sea, both Circle in the Square, 1976.
set designer, Union Jack (ballet), New York City Ballet, State Theatre, 1976.
set designer, Vienna Waltzes, New York City Ballet, State Theatre, 1977.
set designer, The Lady from Dubuque, Morosco Theatre, New York City, 1980.
set designer, Goodbye Fidel, Ambassador Theatre, New York Cty, 1980.
set designer, Davidsbundlertanz (ballet), New York City Ballet, State Theatre, 1980.
set designer, Adagio Lamentoso (ballet), New York City Ballet, State Theatre, 1981.
set and costume designer, Noah and the Flood (ballet), New York City Ballet, State Theatre, 1982.
set designer, Romantic Pieces, San Francisco Ballet, 1983.
set and costume designer, Ballet Imperial (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, Chicago, IL, then New York City, 1988.
Also set and costume designer, unless indicated: Fibres, Paul Taylor Dance Company, 1960; Pierrot Lunaire, 1962; Time Out of Mind, Joffrey Ballet, 1963; Pierrot Luniare, Netherlands Dance Theatre, 1964; Field Mass, NetherlandsDance Theatre, 1965; Nine Dances with Music By Corelli, Paul Taylor Dance Company, 1965; Ivanov, London, 1965; set designer, Villon, Pennsylvania Ballet,1966; Medea, Rome, Italy, 1966; production designer, Pierrot Lunaire and Ricercare, both Ballet Rambert, 1967; Gala Dix, Pennsylvania Ballet, 1967; Firebird, After Eden, and A Season in Hell, all Harkness Ballet, 1967; Ceremony, Pennsylvania Ballet, 1968; Pierrot Lunaire, Royal Danish Ballet, 1968; A Time of Snow, Martha Graham Company, 1968; Villon, 1969; Ricercare, Royal Swedish Ballet, 1970; Souvenirs (ballet), Malmo, Sweden, 1970; According to Eve, AlvinAiley American Dance Theatre, 1972; Black Angel, Pennsylvania Ballet, 1973;Voluntaries (ballet), National Ballet of Canada, 1973; set designer, The Relativity of Icarus, 1974; The Mooche, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre 1975;Pas de Duke, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, 1976; Sphinx (ballet), 1977;set designer, As You Like It, Long Beach, CA, 1979; Sphinx (ballet), National Ballet of Canada, 1983; set designer, Components (ballet), National Balletof Canada, 1984; Pulcinella, 1984; set designer, Die Liebe der Danae (opera),Santa Fe Opera; Voluntaries (ballet), Royal Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre.
Credits; MAJOR TOURS
Set and costume designer, Redhead, U.S. cities, 1960.
set and costume designer, Pelleas and Melisande (ballet), European cities, 1966.
Credits; PRINCIPAL FILM WORK
Production and costume designer, The Loved One, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1965.
production and set designer, Such Good Friends, Paramount, 1971.
Credits; PRINCIPAL TELEVISION APPEARANCES; SPECIALS
Rouben Ter-Arutunian--The Art of Stage Design, PBS.
Credits; PRINCIPAL TELEVISION WORK; SERIES
Set designer, The Bert Parks Show, CBS, 1951.
set designer, This Is Show Business, CBS, 1951.
set designer, The Toast of the Town, CBS, 1952.
set designer, Studio One, CBS, 1951-53.
set and costume designer, The Bell Telephone Hour, NBC, 1958.
Credits; EPISODIC
Set designer, "Reunion in Vienna," Producer's Showcase, NBC, 1955.
set and costume designer, "The Art of the Prima Donna," Bell Telephone Hour, NBC, 1966.
Credits; SPECIALS
Costume and set designer, "The Abduction from the Seraglio,"NBC Opera, NBC, 1954.
set and costume designer, "The Would-Be Gentleman" and "Ariadne auf Naxos," both NBC Opera, NBC, 1955.
set and costume designer, "The Magic Flute," NBC Opera, NBC, 1956.
set designer, "Maria Golovin," NBC Opera, NBC, 1959.
set and costume designer, Antigone, NBC, 1956.
set and costume designer, "The Taming of the Shrew," Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC, 1956.
set and costume designer, "Twelfth Night," Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC, 1957.
set and costume designer, "The Tempest," Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC, 1959.
set and costume designer, Swing into Spring, CBS, 1958.
set designer, A Musical Bouquet for Maurice Chevalier, CBS, 1960.
set and costume designer, Noah and the Flood, CBS, 1962.
set designer, Marlene Dietrich: I Wish You Love, CBS, 1973.
set and costume designer, "Rachel, La Cubana," NET Opera Theatre, PBS, 1973.

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