Yan Tax
Yan Tax (also: Jan Tax ) is a Dutch costume designer who works for operas , musicals and film productions .
life and work
Tax studied fashion design in Breda . Since the 1970s he has been working internationally as a costume designer for film, television and stage. In the field of opera, he has a longstanding artistic partnership with the director Harry Kupfer and the set designer Hans Schavernoch , who a. a. to Berlin, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Dresden, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Florence, Bern and Helsinki. In 2014 he made his debut in a highly acclaimed Rosenkavalier new production by Kupfer at the Salzburg Festival . Tax also worked with the opera directors Jean-Louis Martinoty (in Paris and Vienna) and Frank Van Laecke (in Maastricht) together.
His costumes for musicals are particularly in demand in the German-speaking area and the Benelux countries and have earned him several nominations and prizes. His collaboration on the Dutch musical Cyrano , which was also played on Broadway in New York, was nominated for the Tony Award in 1994.
“My job is a serving job. This is very important to me. I serve the production, serve the director. It is he who sets the direction at the beginning and that's where I start. There are colleagues who can later say exactly what their motivation, the concept, was. For me it's a very emotional thing and I usually can't say why I choose this color or that material. I'm not a friend of many words, that's difficult sometimes. There are directors who want to talk a lot and a long time about costumes. I panic there. I don't have that much to say about my work. It is what it is."
In addition, Yan Tax was responsible for the costumes in more than 50 films. In 2008 he was nominated for the German Film Prize for his costumes for Paul Verhoeven's Black Book .
Musical theater
musical
- 1992 Cyrano - The Musical - Amsterdam, the following year on Broadway
- 1999 Mozart! - Theater an der Wien
- 2001 Kuifje - De Zonnetempel - Antwerp
- 2003 3 Musketeers, de Musical - Rotterdam, Berlin
- 2007 I've never been to New York - Hamburg, Vienna, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Zurich, Oberhausen
- 2008 Sunset Boulevard - in several cities in the Netherlands
- 2012 Elisabeth - Vienna
- 2018 40- 45 - België
Opera
- 2009 The Merry Widow - Hamburg State Opera
- 2010 Ariadne auf Naxos - Theater an der Wien
- 2010 La damnation de Faust - Frankfurt Opera
- 2010 Don Giovanni - Vienna State Opera
- 2012 The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - Zurich Opera House
- 2013 The Player - Oper Frankfurt
- 2014 Der Rosenkavalier - Salzburg Festival
- 2014 Parsifal - New National Theater Tokyo
Awards
- 1991 Best Costume Designer at EuropaCinema
- 1994 nomination for the Tony Award - Cyrano - The Musical
- 2008 nomination for the German Film Award - Black Book
- 2014 Austrian Music Theater Prize in the Equipment category - Elisabeth
Web links
- Yan Tax in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Yan Tax at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Yan Tax , short biography of the Salzburg Festival
Individual evidence
- ^ Anne Zimmermann: Role Models: Yan Tax , in: Schaufenster (Die Presse), December 9, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tax, yan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tax, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch costume designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |