Roland Olbeter (Set Designer)
Scenographer and rob art. Lives and works in Barcelona since
1986.
Formally trained as a concert violinist and naval constructor, has
worked extensively for the theatre, the opera, as well as for sound and movement
installations.
His work has a technical sophistication most uncommon in
the visual art and theatre. He was a Maat Collective Member together with Franc
Aleu and Pere Tantiсб. His work focuses on the creation of impossible artefacts.
He has collaborated in multiple scenography from the Barcelona Olympic games in
92, to collaborations with Bigas Luna, Jaume Plensa, Alfred Arribas, Enric
Miralles and Xavier Mariscal, among others. He has designed many main pieces for
La Fura dels Baus and Marcel·lн Antъnez.
He developed and directed the
chamber opera Orlando Furioso for 5 music robots and soprano with music by
Michael Gross.
He designed the thematic Pavillon OIKOS for EXPO 2008 in
Zaragoza and is realising the 4 operas by Richard Wagner The Ring of the
Nibelung, together with Carlos Padrisa and Franc Aleu.
At this moment he
is preparing an automatic puppet theatre situated in a container with music by
Kats Chernin
Roland Olbeter official website www.olbeter.com
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