Urs Schönebaum

Lighting designer

Source: Privat

Freelance lighting designer for theater, opera, dance, exhibitions, performances and installations. His work includes more than 200 productions at theaters such as Opera Bastille, Garnier, Le Chatelet, Comedie Francaise, Paris; Metropolitan Opera, New York; Festivals d’Avignon and Aix en Provence; Salzburg Festival and Bayreuth Festival; Schaubühne Berlin; Teatro Real, Madrid; Sydney Opera House; La Scala, Milan; Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel and at the Bayerische Staataoper.

He has worked with directors such as Thomas Ostermeier, Michael Haneke, Claus Guth, La Fura dels Baus, Pierre Audi, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet, Laurent Pelly, Sasha Waltz and William Kentrigde. With Robert Wilson with whom he has collaborated for many years. He has also developed developed the lighting design for art projects by Vanessa, Beecroft, Anselm Kiefer, Dan Graham Graham, Soundwalk Collective, Taryn Simon and Marina Abramović. Since 2012 he has also worked as a stage designer and director. In 2012 and 2014 he staged and designed the operas “Jetzt”/“What Next?” and “Happy Happy” by Mathis Nitschke at the Opera National de Montpellier, and in 2022 at the the 2nd act for the Walküre project at the Stuttgart State Opera. He designed sets and lighting for the operas “Bomarzo” at the Teatro Real in Madrid, the open cycle “Aus Licht” for the Holland Festival, “Apocalypse Arabe” and “Ritorno de Ulisse in Patria” for the Festival d’Aix en Provence, the “Klangwolke 22” in Linz, ‘Bastarda’ at the Opera La Monnaie in Brussels, ”La Regenta” at the Matadero in Madrid and ‘Inside Light’ at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.

 

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