Paul Brown

Paul Brown was born in Glamorgan. Has taken part in projects run by London's Riverside Studio. Frequently works with musical theatres throughout the world. Productions he has designed include: Die Zauberflöte (Salzburg Festival), Mitridate, rè di Ponto, Falstaff, I masnadieri (Royal Opera, Covent Garden), King Arthur (Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Théâtre du Châtelet), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Moses and Aaron, Il trovatore (Metropolitan Opera), Pelléas et Mélisande, Lulu, The Turn of the Screw, Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne Festival), Peter Grimes, Parsifal (Opéra Bastille), Don Carlo (Sydney Opera House), Rigoletto (Madrid's Teatro Real), Thaпs (Chicago Lyric Opera), L'incoronazione di Poppea (Bologna's Teatro Comunale), Kát'a Kabanová, Lucio Silla, Le nozze di Figaro (Santa Fe Opera), La traviata, Anna Bolena (Arena di Verona), Mefistofele (Nederlandse Opera), Aida (Bregenz on the Lake), Tannhäuser (San Francisco). At La Scala in Milan he has designed a production of the ballet Giselle, danced by Sylvie Guillem.

He has also worked with drama theatres, designing Shakespeare's Richard II, Coriolanus, The Tempest and King Lear (Almeida Theatre, directed by Jonathan Kent), William Wycherley's Country Wife and Edward Bond's The Sea (West End).

Paul Brown has worked on the films Angels and Insects (1996), for which he received an Oscar nomination as best costume designer, and Philip Haas' Up at the Villa (2000). Together with Jonathan Kent he has staged several musicals on Broadway and West End, among them Man of La Mancha and Marguerite.

Honorary member of the Welsh College of Music and Drama. In the 2005-2006 season, he made his Moscow debut at the Bolshoi Theatre as production designer of the opera Die Zauberflöte (directed by Graham Vick).