Svoboda, Josef

Svoboda, Josef
▪ 2003

      Czech stage scenographer (b. May 10, 1920, Caslav, Czech.—d. April 8, 2002, Prague, Czech Rep.), enhanced more than 700 theatre, ballet, and opera productions in Europe and the U.S. with his unique vision and technical ingenuity; his innovative designs ranged from massive pieces of relatively traditional scenery to delicately placed strings, mirrors, projected slides, video screens, and lasers. Svoboda as a boy apprenticed to his father as a cabinetmaker and then studied architecture at Prague's School of Industrial and Fine Arts. Although he never designed a building, he returned there to teach architecture for some 20 years (until 1990). Svoboda created his first stage production in 1943 and from 1951 until 1992 was technical director and chief set designer for the National Theatre in Prague. He was also cofounder (1958) and artistic director (from 1973) of the Laterna Magika (“Magic Lantern”) Theatre, where performers interacted with film imagery.

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