Estate of Paul Brown
Designer
Awards
Winner of the Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) award 2013. Awarded by the RSA Trustee Board in recognition of fostering the place of UK set and costume design on the world stage.
Nominations
2018 - Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera for his set and costume design for Iolanthe at English National Opera
1997 - Academy Award for Best Costume Designs for Angels and Insects
Paul was born in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. He trained under Percy Harris at Motley.Honorary member of the Welsh College of Music and Drama. He was recipient of an honorary diploma at the Prague Quadrennial international theatre design exhibition.
“Paul Brown, the opera and theatre designer, who has died aged 57, was a dealer in truth and beauty; his great talent, in a career crammed with landmark productions, was to point up the difference between the two.”
“Manon Lescaut (Royal Opera House)
Flamboyantly designed by Paul Brown this production of Manon could not be more different from Laurent Pelly’s stylised version.
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“Hippolyte et Aricie (Glyndebourne Festival)
... the lighter moments do bring the best out of Paul Brown’s fabulously inventive and glowingly colourful designs...”
Gallery
2019
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Tosca (Revival) | The Royal Opera House, Dir. Jonathan Kent |
2018
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Iolanthe | English National Opera, Dir. Cal McCrystal |
2017
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Half a Sixpence | Noël Coward Theatre, Dir. Rachel Kavanaugh |
2016
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny | Royal Danish Theatre, Dir. Graham Vick |
| Idomeneo | Göteborgsoperan, Dir. Graham Vick |
2015
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Le Roi d'Arthus | Opéra National de Paris, Dir. Graham Vick |
| Assassinio nella Cattedrale | Mariinsky Theatre, Dir. Vasily Barkhatov |
2014
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Curro Vargas | Teatro de la Zarzuela, Dir. Graham Vick |
| Manon Lescaut | Royal Opera House and Shanghai, Dir. Jonathan Kent |
| War and Peace | Mariinsky Theatre, Dir. Graham Vick |
| Don Giovianni (Revival) | Glyndebourne |
| Guillaume Tell | Bologna and Turin, Dir. Graham Vick |
| Der Fliegender Holländer (Revival) | Royal Danish Theatre, Dir. Jonathan Kent |
2013
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| The Marriage of Figaro (revival) | Santa Fe Opera, Dir. Jonathan Kent |
| Guillaume Tell | Rossini Opera Festival, Dir. Graham Vick |
| Nabucco | New National Theatre Foundation (Japan), Dir. Graham Vick |
| Hippolyte et Aricie | Glyndebourne Festival, Dir. Jonathan Kent |