Yannis Thavoris graduated with a diploma in Architecture from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1995. He then obtained a Master of Arts in European Scenography at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He was winner of the 1997 Linbury Prize for Stage Design.
Recent designs include La finta giardiniera for the Royal College of Music; Carmen for the Royal Academy of Music; Taj Mahal for Grange Park Opera; The Turn of the Screw for USA’s Spoleto Festival; Don Giovanni for Santa Fe Opera; Suor Angelica for English National Opera; Marx in London! for Scottish Opera; Mansfield Park for Royal Northern College of Music; Hänsel and Gretel for Royal College of Music; Viva la Diva for Salzburger Landestheater; Roméo et Juliette for Estonian National Opera; Orlando for San Francisco Opera; Roberto Devereux (sets) for Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and Otello for Theater Magdeburg.
Also Tosca for Nederlandse Reisopera and Santa Fe Opera; Cendrillon for Royal Northern College of Music; L’elisir d’amore for Den Jyske Opera; A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Sibelius Academy; La finta giardiniera for Buxton Festival; Ariodante, The Lady from the Sea and Madama Butterfly for Scottish Opera and Rigoletto for National Opera Bucharest.