Barbara de Limburg
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‘stupendously effective stage design’
‘The excellent scenery of Barbara de Limburg metamorphoses naturally, enlarging or dwarfing the stage, never betraying the original dramaturgy’
Barbara de Limburg designs for both theatre and opera, creating sets with great style, imagination and visual beauty. Born in Brussels, she studied set design at La Cambre, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels in Brussels. Initially she worked mainly in theatre and in dance, enjoying a successful partnership with choreographer Bud Blumenthal, before expanding into opera.
She enjoys a collaboration with director Laurent Pelly; current and recent projects include Offenbach’s Le Voyage dans la Lune, Verdi's Falstaff, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Le Coq d’Or, Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénedict and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges.
Current projects include Stephen Sondheim's Company with director James Bonas for Génération Opéra, as well as several revivals of existing productions. Collaborations with other directors include La traviata and Hänsel und Gretel with Emmanuel Bastet and Benvenutto Cellini and Il Viaggio a Reims with Laura Scozzi. She has also worked with directors/authors wearelusi.com on a new piece based on Alice in Wonderland, performed in a spiegeltent. Theatre productions include Erik Satie – Mémoires d’un amnésique, Tennessee Williams – Short Stories and Vers Santeuil with Agathe Mélinand.
‘The scenography, by Barbara de Limburg, is particularly inspired. She knows how to transport us with fluidity and rhythm to all the places where the action takes place. With processes that combine video and the principle of the permanent set, we find ourselves in New York apartments, parks, the subway, the terraces of skyscrapers or bars..... '
Resonance-lyriques.org, Company, Opéra national de Bordeaux
