Barbara Wysocka

rare acuity and precision

Director, Designer, Playwright

Co-founder, CENTRALA

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‘Barbara Wysocka delivers a strong, deliberately disturbing vision of the piece. She searches with rare acuity the psychology of each character... Her precise, determined staging leaves nothing to chance’

Ôlyrix, Kát'a Kabanová, Opéra de Lyon

Barbara Wysocka is an actress and theatre and opera director whose experimental multidisciplinary work brings together drama, documentary, installation, video and music to explore political and social themes.

‘I try to pay attention to the emotional story, no matter if I'm in front of the camera or directing a singer’

Barbara Wysocka

Excerpts from Kát'a Kabanová
The making of Wysocka's La bohème
La bohème Teaser
Tokarczuk/Wysocka/Zadara: Bieguni (Flights)
Behind the Scenes of Quartett
Francesconi/Wysocka/Barenboim: Quartett at Staatsoper Berlin
Wysocka on Quartett at Staatsoper Berlin
Wysocka plays Klitemnestra in Xenakis' Oresteia (dir. Zadara)
Wysocka on the making of Tosca
Puccini: Tosca
Orwell: 1984
Schiller: Don Karlos
Büchner: Dantons Tod
Wysocka on the making of Różycki's Eros i Psyche
Różycki: Eros i Psyche
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
Wysocka, Damrau and Breslik on Lucia di Lammermoor in Munich
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Knapik: Moby Dick (World Premiere)
Dusapin: Medeamaterial
Büchner/Berg: Woyzeck/Wozzeck
Glass: The Fall of the House of Usher

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