Paul Brown, Esq

Paul Brown, Esq's Biography

Forename(s)
Paul
Sex
Male
Date of Birth
13/5/1960
Surname
BROWN
Style
Paul Brown, Esq

Paul Brown, Esq's Professional Career

Career
theatre designer; trained under Margaret Harris; Diploma of Honour Praque Quadrennial 1999; Theatre designs for: Almeida, Royal Court, Traverse, Bush, Lincoln Centre NY; prodns 1985-87: A Lie of the Mind, Ourselves Alone, Road; Almeida (at the Gainsborough Studios), Richard II, Coriolanus, The Tempest (Critic Circle Award for Best Designer 2000), Platanov (Critic Circle Award for Best Designer 2001, Evening Standard Award for Best Designer 2001), King Lear, Man of La Mancha (Broadway), Hamlet (Setagua Theatre Tokyo, Sadlers Wells London), False Servant (RNT), As You Desire Me (West End), Country Wife (Haymarket) 2007, The Sea (Haymarket) 2007, Marguerite (Haymarket) 2008, Oedipus (NT), Emeror and Galilean (NT) 2011; Opera prodns incl: Mitridate (Covent Garden) 1991, Hamlet (Monte Carlo) 1993, L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Bologna) 1993, Zemire et Azor 1993 (Drottningholm Court Theatre Sweden), King Arthur (Paris Châtalet and Covent Garden) 1995, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Met NY) 1995, Tom Jones (Drottningholm Court Theatre Sweden) 1995, The Midsummer Marriage (ROH) 1996, Fidelio (ENO) 1996, Lulu (Glyndebourne) 1996, Parsifal (Bastille Paris) 1997, I Masnadieri (Covent Garden) 1999, Moses und Aron (Metropolitan NY) 1999, Pelléas et Mélislande (Glyndebourne) 1999, Don Carlos (Sydney Opera House) 1999, Falstaff (re-opening Covent Garden) 1999, Peter Grimes (Bastille Paris) 2001, Vanessa (Monte Carlo) 2001, Rigoletto (Madrid) 2001, Thias (Lyric Opera Chicago), Katya Kabanova (Santa Fe), La Traviata (Verona Arena), Mefistofele (Amsterdam) 2004, Die Zauberflöte (Festspielhaus Saltzburg) 2005, The Magic Flute (Bolshoi Moscow) 2005, Lucio Silla (Santa Fe) 2005, Tosca (ROH) 2006, The Tempest (Santa Fe) 2006, Turn of the Screw (Glyndebourne) 2006, Electra (Kirov St Petersburg) 2007, Anna Bolena (Verona) 2007, Tannhäuser (San Francisco) 2007, Marriage of Figaro (Santa Fe) 2008, Aida (Bregenz), Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne) 2009, Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne), Die Gezeichneten (Palermo) 2010, Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Mariinsky St Petersburg) 2011, Tristan und Isolde (Deutsche Oper) 2011, Otello (Zurich) 2011; Ballet Giselle (La Scala Milan) 2001; Films Angels and Insects (Oscar nomination 1997), Up At the Villa

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