By Jonathan Dawe
The Juilliard School
Center for Innovation in the Arts
Conductor: Ryan McAdams
Director: Edward Bilous
Set Designer: Caleb Wartenbaker
Prijection Designer: John Erickson
Costume Designer: Olivera Gajic
LightingDesigner: Paul Hudson
(play and opera) by Thornton Wilder and Paul Hindemith. Lincoln Center - December, 2014.
American Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Leon Botstein
Director: Jonathan Rosenberg
Set Designer: Zane Pihlstrom
Costume Designer: Olivera Gajic
LightingDesigner: Peter West
By Gioachino Rossini
The Juilliard School
Conductor: Asher Fisch
Director: Sam Helfrich
Set Designer: John Conklin
Costume Designer: Olivera Gajic
LightingDesigner: Jaffy Wideman
By William Shekespeare
Music by Benjamin Britten
Novembar 2005
The Juilliard School-Juilliard Opera Center
Conductor: David Atherton
Director:Eve Shapiro
Set Designer: Chris Barreca
Costume Designer: Olivera Gajic
Lighting Designer: Metthew McCarthy
“There are fairies. There are lovers. There are the rustics. There is the court. What metaphysical as well as social gulfs divide them! But Imagination bridges them all. Imagination make them all one.”
Harold Goddard
W.A. Mozart Lorenzo da Ponte
Director: Emma Griffin
Set Designer: Laura Jellinek
Costume Designer: Olivera Gajic
Lighting Designer: Mark Barton
Maestro: Gregory Feldmann
THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL
2019
“…….costume designer Olivera Gajic masterfully created an atmosphere on stage that embodied a raw mix of internal turmoil, passion, love and hate. Gajic’s costumes acted as guideposts throughout the opera, as they took the audience on a cerebral exploration of each character’s psyche. “
Opera Wire
Photos by Richard Termine
Costume designer Olivera Gajic deserves a tip of one's Philip Treacy hat for her spot-on creations....Donna Anna's mourning ensemble of silk taffeta with black velvet and beaded lace hewed to conservativism while indulging in ostentation. Don Ottavio wore a sharkskin suit, the very picture of someone who comes on too strong and up looking like a slimeball. Donna Elvira donned a Victorian-inspired hunter-green ridding dress and brandished a crop in her self-ordained mission to tame Giovanni. Zerlina, flouncing about in a skirt of tortured pink organza that made her look like a cake topper, embodied the kind of bridge who dreamed of a princess wedding then forgot about the marriage that comes after it. Masetto, equally befuddled, drowned in a suit that was two sizes too big for him. Don Giovanni- sexpot, daredevil, provocateur-paired a fashionably tailored red satin suit with a fuchsia cape.
Opera News
at The Juilliard School
Music John Musto
Libretto Mark Campbell
Director Alison Moritz
Conductor Joseph Colaneri
Set Design Lawrence Moten
Costume Design OliveraGajic
Lighting Design Kate Ashton
