Exhibition
Professional Designers
Poland
Pawel Dobrzycki
Traviata
Selected Category: Performance Design
Category: Set Design, Costume Design, Lighting Design
Design Statement
During the endless, obsessive modern carnival, feelings and relationships between people are dying. The meaning of life is dying too.
Violetta is a typical human being of contemporary times: she lives at the cost of other people. Living inside a carnival parade platform surrounded by mirrors, and on this platform surrounded by a never-ending and pervasive carnival amongst masked crowds.
Love is an unexpected turn of fate in Violetta's world - as true love cannot take place due a perpetual carnival, due to masked faces between unknown “celebrities”. Violetta also lives on a metaphorical shore on a lake. With a backdrop of quiet water and a beautiful sky she experiences her love (act II) and her death (act IV) – love has no chance in this civilisation of fun. Death also wears a mask. She comes and takes people away unnoticed.
Today's world is like a mad carnival, and in this world true love will never be fulfilled.
Violetta is a typical human being of contemporary times: she lives at the cost of other people. Living inside a carnival parade platform surrounded by mirrors, and on this platform surrounded by a never-ending and pervasive carnival amongst masked crowds.
Love is an unexpected turn of fate in Violetta's world - as true love cannot take place due a perpetual carnival, due to masked faces between unknown “celebrities”. Violetta also lives on a metaphorical shore on a lake. With a backdrop of quiet water and a beautiful sky she experiences her love (act II) and her death (act IV) – love has no chance in this civilisation of fun. Death also wears a mask. She comes and takes people away unnoticed.
Today's world is like a mad carnival, and in this world true love will never be fulfilled.
Gallery
<Photo Credit> Photo Michal Heller. Act I
<Photo Credit> Photo Michal Heller. Act I, Violetta's first aria
<Photo Credit> Photo Michal Heller. Act I, Violetta surrounded by crowd, inside her mirror wardrobe.
<Photo Credit> Photo Michal Heller. Act III Gipsy's dance
<Photo Credit> Photo Michal Heller. Act III duel on roulette wheel
<Photo Credit> Photo Michal Heller. Act III carnival crowd
Video/Audio
Pawel Dobrzycki
Pawel Dobrzycki
Is a stage, costume & light designer, pedagogue, painter, architect; trained in University of Technology and in Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow; a professor of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; Dean of Scenography Faculty; created about 320 works with best polish directors in best polish theatres and abroad (England, Russia, Germany, Greece, Holland, France, Israel) including 50 opera productions; member of Education Commission of OISTAT, representing Poland. Opera works included: Faust, Carmen, Aida, Die Flederemuse, Oniegin, Lucia from Lammermoore, Macbeth, Nabucco, L’elixir d’amour, Turandot, La Nozze di Figaro; musicals: Evita, Rent, Shrek, Korczak, Jecyll&Hyde, Fiddler on the Roof. Another most important works 1996 – 2015: Shakespeare King Lear, Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, Young Vic London (II version), England, Panasonic Globe Theatre, Tokyo Japan ( III version) all directed by Helena Kaut-Howson, Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, dir. W. Adamczyk, Cracow Opera, cond. Richard Bonynge, Walser Schneewittchen, dir. Ruedi Straub, Zurich Summer Festival Switzerland, Gombrowicz Yvonne, Princess of Burgund, dir. Grazyna Dylag, Deutchen Nationaltheater Weimar, Germany, Sophocles Anthygony, Oedipus King, both dir. Yorgos Kimoulis in Epidauros Ancient Theatre Greece, Schostakovitch Lady Macbeth, dir. H. Baranowski, Novosibirsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet Russia, Mussorgsky Boris Godunov, dir. Yuri Alexandov, Opera Wroclawska, large scale production in Centenial Hall Wroclaw, Phantom in the Opera by Webber non replica production in new design, dir. W. Kepczynski, Teatr Roma Warsaw, Verdi Macbeth, large scale production, dir. Bruno Berger Gorsky Wroclaw Opera, Centenial Hall Stage.
Is a stage, costume & light designer, pedagogue, painter, architect; trained in University of Technology and in Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow; a professor of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; Dean of Scenography Faculty; created about 320 works with best polish directors in best polish theatres and abroad (England, Russia, Germany, Greece, Holland, France, Israel) including 50 opera productions; member of Education Commission of OISTAT, representing Poland. Opera works included: Faust, Carmen, Aida, Die Flederemuse, Oniegin, Lucia from Lammermoore, Macbeth, Nabucco, L’elixir d’amour, Turandot, La Nozze di Figaro; musicals: Evita, Rent, Shrek, Korczak, Jecyll&Hyde, Fiddler on the Roof. Another most important works 1996 – 2015: Shakespeare King Lear, Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, Young Vic London (II version), England, Panasonic Globe Theatre, Tokyo Japan ( III version) all directed by Helena Kaut-Howson, Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, dir. W. Adamczyk, Cracow Opera, cond. Richard Bonynge, Walser Schneewittchen, dir. Ruedi Straub, Zurich Summer Festival Switzerland, Gombrowicz Yvonne, Princess of Burgund, dir. Grazyna Dylag, Deutchen Nationaltheater Weimar, Germany, Sophocles Anthygony, Oedipus King, both dir. Yorgos Kimoulis in Epidauros Ancient Theatre Greece, Schostakovitch Lady Macbeth, dir. H. Baranowski, Novosibirsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet Russia, Mussorgsky Boris Godunov, dir. Yuri Alexandov, Opera Wroclawska, large scale production in Centenial Hall Wroclaw, Phantom in the Opera by Webber non replica production in new design, dir. W. Kepczynski, Teatr Roma Warsaw, Verdi Macbeth, large scale production, dir. Bruno Berger Gorsky Wroclaw Opera, Centenial Hall Stage.
Email Address: pawel.dobrzycki@asp.waw.pl
Theatre Company Białystok, Poland
The Premiere Date of Production 2013-12-30
The Premiere Space of Production Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic – European Art Centre
Author Giuseppe Verdi
Director/ Choreographer Roberto Skolmowski/Maćko Prusak
Set Designer Paweł Dobrzycki
Lighting Designer Paweł Dobrzycki
Costume Designer Paweł Dobrzycki
Sound Designer Michał Klauza
