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; their work together includes 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.
Other work includes Stephen Sondheim's Company with director James Bonas, Gounod's Mireille with Bruno Ravella, La traviata and Hänsel und Gretel with Emmanuel Bastet and Benvenutto Cellini and Il Viaggio a Reims with Laura Scozzi.
‘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
