About
Paul Steinberg is a graduate of Pratt Institute and The Central School of Art, London. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, was featured in the 2003, 2007 and 2015 Prague Quadrennial and the recipient of a grant from the British Arts Council. Paul is an Arts Professor in the graduate theater design program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
He has designed sets and costumes for theaters and opera companies in the U.S. and abroad including The Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Paris Opera, La Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, The Netherlands National Opera, Liceu Barcelona, Norwegian National Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Cologne Opera, Komische Opera Berlin, Opera Nomori Tokyo, New Israeli Opera, Lithuanian National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, театра Playwrights Horizons, American Repertory Theater, NY Theater Workshop, Public Theater, Classic Stage Company, Goodman Theater, D.C. Shakespeare Theater, Hartford Stage and Intiman Theater.
Recent productions include Khovanshchina (Antwerp & Ghent), Pyramus and Thisbe/Il Combattimento do Tancredi e Cloronde (world premiere, Canadian Opera Company), Tristan und Isolde (Karlsruhe), CO2 (world premiere, La Scala), Der Rosenkavalier (Glyndebourne Festival Opera) and Mastersingers of Nuremburg (English National Opera).
Coming productions include Don Giovanni (English National Opera & Opera Basel), Der Rosenkavalier (The Royal Opera House Covent Garden & The Metropolitan Opera), Semiramide (Bavarian State Opera & The Royal Opera House Covent Garden) and Lohengrin (The Royal Opera House Covent Garden).
He collaborates regularly with directors Christopher Alden (Don Giovanni and Turandot), David Alden (L’incoronazione di Poppea, La finta giardiniera, Il turco in Italia, Un ballo in maschera, Pelléas et Mélisande, Peter Grimes, Billy Budd and Khovanshchina), Carsen (Tannhäuser, Madama Butterfly, La fanciulla del West, Il trovatore, Otello, Lohengrin, The Love for Three Oranges and CO2) and Richard Jones (Don Giovanni, Wozzeck, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Der Rosenkavalier).