Stage design

Csaba Antal

Csaba Antal, born in Budapest, studied stage design with Josef Svoboda in Prague and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He works as a scenographer and installation artists in Europe and the USA.

He has created stage designs for such productions as Giorgio Strehler's »Moravia/Il Diavolo non piu salvare il mondo« at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Cesare Lievi's »Gespenster« at the Teatro di Milano, János Szász's »Endstation Sehnsucht« at the Arena Stage in Washington DC and Árpád Sopsic's »Ödipus Rex/Ödipus auf Kolonnos« at the National Theatre in Budapest.

Csaba Antal has also produced many stage designs for the opera, including Daniel Mesguich's »La vie parisienne« at the Comédie-Française, Cesare Lievi's »Il barbiere di Siviglia« and »Der Rosenkavalier« at Bonn Opera and »Stiffelio« at the Zurich Opera House. His most recent productions include »Die Zauberflöte« in a production by Michela Lucenti at the Bozen City Theatre and »La lettre des sables« by Daniel Mesguich at the Opera Nationale de Bordeaux, plus »Die Verwandlung« by Luca Micheletti at the Emilia Romagna Teatro.

Csaba Antal has collaborated for many years with Balázs Kovalik. Their relationships started at the Budapest Opera with »Peter Grimes«, »The Turn of the Screw« and »Elektra«, followed by Paisiello's »Il barbiere di Siviglia« at Zurich Opera, »Katja Kabanowa« at Bonn Opera, »Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen« at the Hanover State Opera and works including »La bohème«, Hasse's »Didone abbandonata« and Mariotte's »Salomé« at the Prinzregententheater in Munich.

Csaba Antal has also worked frequently as a director, directing such productions as »Die sieben Todsünden« and »Lulu« at the Teatro Malibran in Venice and Hofmannsthal's »Elektra« at the Ex Convento delle Therese in Venice. He has taught at the conservatories in Paris and Budapest, the Mozarteum Salzburg, Harvard University and the Bavarian Theatre Academy, among others. In addition, he has exhibited at the Prague Quadriennale, in the Kunsthalle Budapest and the Petit Palais in Paris.