Maria bjornson biography

Maria Elena Björnson (16 February 1949 – 13 December 2002) was a theatre designer.

Maria Elena Björnson (16 February – 13 December ) was a theatre designer. She was born in Paris to a Norwegian father and Romanian mother, and was the great-granddaughter of the Norwegian playwright Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in [1].

Maria Elena Viviane Eva Bjornstjerne-Bjornson, born February 16, 1949, in Paris; died December 13, 2002, in London.

Maria Bjornson was regarded by her peers as Britain’s most inspired set and costume designer for theatre, opera, and ballet, as revealed in a survey of their opinions in the late s.

Maria Bjornson, who has died suddenly aged 53, was one of the boldest talents in theatre and opera of the last 30 years.

Maria Björnson, the set and costume designer who created the rich, sumptuous visual world of Andrew Lloyd ber's The Phantom of the Opera — a world of underground caverns, windswept rooftops.