Boris Kudlička

Boris Kudlička graduated from the stage design department of the University of Performing arts in Bratislava. Later on, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Groningen, the Netherlands. Boris made his debut in Bratislava with a stage design for Oskar Nedbal’s ballet From Fairy Tale to Fairy Tale. In 1995, he joined the Warsaw National Opera, first as assistant to and, in 1996, as stage designer in his own right. At the Warsaw National Opera, he created stage designs for a ballet evening entitled the Polish Triptych, Rossini’s opera Tancredi, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Szymanowski’s King Roger, Verdi’s Othello, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, and Mozart’s Don Giovanni. A performance of Madama Butterfly staged in Washington by American artists brought him a great success with both the audiences and critics.

Boris Kudlička made stage designs for many Polish drama and musical theatres, operas, and gala concerts. His work includes the design of costumes for Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet, the stage design for The Heartsnatcher by Elżbieta Sikora (also presented at Centre Pompidou in Paris), for Macbeth directed by Mariusz Treliński in Warsaw, Smetana’s The Bartered Bride directed by Josef Průdek at the Prague National Theatre, Galina by Landowski, Carmen by Bizet, The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov directed by Maciej Prus at the Warsaw National Theatre, Cyrano at the Warsaw Musical Theatre, and The Phantom of the Opera at the Poznań Opera. Boris Kudlička designed the stage for a gala concert of Requiem for My Friends by Zbigniew Preisner, the oratorio Jeremiah by Petr Eben in Saint Vitus’s Cathedral in Prague (together with Andrzej Kreütz Majewski), and for the Polish pavilion at the World Exhibition EXPO 2000 in Hannover. Boris also cooperated with film and television makers on productions of the following films: Fountain for Zuzana directed by Dušan Rapoš, Egoists directed by Mariusz Treliński, and Among Strangers with Sophia Loren staring and directed by Edoard Ponti.