See Pierre Yovanovitch’s up to date set design for Korea Nationwide Opera in Seoul

French inside architect and furnishings designer Pierre Yovanovitch is understood for creating compelling design showcases – from the Paris showroom of his model, Pierre Yovanovitch Mobilier, to narrative-led furnishings exhibitions similar to 2019’s present ‘Love’ at New York’s R & Firm. He has additionally efficiently transferred his expertise to costume and set design for operatic efficiency – his first foray being with Theater Basel’s staging of Rigoletto in 2023, for which he created an elegant and slick set comprising three brightly painted curved partitions – like summary flower petals – that moved because the motion unfolded and intensified.

Now, Yovanovitch has revealed the set design and costumes for a manufacturing of Le Nozze di Figaro by the Korea Nationwide Opera in Seoul.

Pierre Yovanovitch’s set and costume design for the Korea Nationwide Opera

Yovanovitch is a lifelong opera fan, and his ardour for the medium resonates via his work and its consideration to element. A setting solar presides over the efficiency, monitoring the passage of time because the ‘day of insanity’ unfolds. The stage, set on a rotating platform, shifts between the Countess’s atelier and the Depend’s home, providing clean-lined architectural vignettes within the spherical. A clean, spiral tower and the imposing symmetry of the Depend’s dwelling draw on Nineteen Twenties and Nineteen Thirties modernist structure – specifically the stepped type of the traditional Mesopotamian ziggurat and the minimalist geometry of Villa Noailles – an aesthetic Yovanovitch hopes will resonate with youthful, up to date audiences.

Notably, this manufacturing marks his first creating costumes – a complete of 53 – together with equipment, hairstyles, and make-up. Drawing on his eight-year tenure designing menswear for Pierre Cardin within the Nineties, he blended references to conventional Korean apparel, similar to conventional Korean knots and hanbok influences, with the sharp tailoring and silhouettes of Nineteen Twenties–30s trend.

‘This challenge allowed me to broaden my storytelling into new realms – past the set to costumes – and to replicate the witty intricacies of Le Nozze di Figaro via each visible element,’ says Yovanovitch, who meticulously tailor-made every look to replicate the contradictions and complexities of the characters. ‘Every thing appears easy on this opera, however ultimately, all of the characters are ambiguous. Love is in all places, and melancholy greater than meets the attention.’

The designer labored carefully with director Vincent Huguet, with whom he additionally collaborated on Rigoletto at Theater Basel. For these curious to see the place this artistic partnership goes subsequent, hold your lorgnettes on the prepared: Yovanovitch and Huguet will reunite for Wagner’s ‘The Valkyrie’, set to open later this 12 months on the Rome Opera Home. Encore!

Le Nozze di Figaro was staged by Korea Nationwide Opera at Seoul Arts Centre this March,

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