Jean Kalman

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Jean Kalman (born July 20, 1945 in Paris ) is a French lighting designer who works mainly in English-speaking countries and in Austria.

Life

Kalman has worked in the theater since 1979. He designed and designed the lighting for numerous productions of spoken theater and opera worldwide and worked with important directors such as Pierre Audi , Peter Brook , Robert Carsen , Richard Eyre , Nicholas Hytner , Rufus Norris , Peter Stein and Deborah Warner .

Engagements have taken him to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden , where he made his debut in 1994 with Verdi's La traviata , the English National Opera and the Welsh National Opera , the Washington National Opera , De Vlaamse Opera and De Nederlandse Opera , the Metropolitan Opera in New York, to Paris and Aix-en-Provence, Glyndebourne, to Milan, Venice, Florence, Genoa, to Spain, as well as to the Royal Court Theater in London, to a number of stages in London's West End and to the Royal Shakespeare Theater . In 1992 he was invited by the Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto , Japan, to design the lighting for Oedipus Rex by Jean Cocteau and Igor Stravinsky , staged by Julie Taymor , set design: George Tsypin , costumes: Emi Wada . In 1996 he was a guest at the Theater der Welt festival in Dresden .

The artist has been working together with the Salzburg Festival since 1993 . That year he was invited by Deborah Warner to take on the lighting design for her Coriolan production in the Felsenreitschule . Hildegard Bechtler designed the stage and Chloé Obolensky designed the costumes . This production was also shown the following year. This was followed in 2001 - again at the Felsenreitschule - by Janáček's Jenůfa , staged by Bob Swaim and conducted by John Eliot Gardiner . In 2002 he took over the lighting design for Puccini's Turandot , now in the Großer Festspielhaus . Conductor was Valery Gergiev , director David Pountney , outfitters were Johan Engels and Marie-Jeanne Lecca . The Magic Flute (2006 in the Großer Haus) was conducted by Riccardo Muti and staged by Pierre Audi, the world premiere of Rihms Dionysos (2010 in the Haus für Mozart ) by Ingo Metzmacher and again Pierre Audi. A Deborah Warner production of Shakespeare's Der Sturm on the Pernerinsel in Hallein is planned for 2016 , Christof Hetzer will design the stage and costumes.

At the RuhrTriennale 2005 he led the project “Nights Underground ” together with Andrea Breth and Christian Boltanski . At Ruhr.2010 he was chosen for the world premiere of Henze's Gisela! or: The strange and memorable ways of happiness oblige. Directed by Pierre Audi, the stage and costumes were designed by Christof Hetzer. For the Holland Festival 2013 he created - together with the composer Tomoko Mukaiyama and the choreographer Nicole Beutler - the dance piece with the Japanese title Shirokuro (in German: black and white ).

Hansel and Gretel , Vienna State Opera 2015

He made his debut at Theater an der Wien in 2008 with the Robert Carsen production of Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites . At the Salzburg Biennale 2011 he supported Heiner Goebbels in his music theater production Black on White based on texts by Edgar Allan Poe and Maurice Blanchot , Kalman designed the stage and light, and Ensemble Modern played . In 2015 he made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in a new Hansel and Gretel production, staged by Adrian Noble , equipped by Anthony Ward and conducted by Christian Thielemann .

In the area of installations , Kalman also worked with Heiner Goebbels , Christian Boltanski , Karel Appel and Georg Baselitz .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ YouTube : SHIROKURO - a dance concerto by tomoko mukaiyama | nicole beutler | jean kalman , accessed March 24, 2016
  2. ^ Domus : Christian Boltanski Jean Kalman. Fattore K , Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Christian Boltanski and Jean Kalman about Krawczyk, Cantor and their visions, edited by Loredana Mascheroni, December 21, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Kalman, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lighting designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris