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Paco Azorin - director & set designer
Paco Azorin studied direction and set design at the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona.
He designed more than hundred productions for opera, theatre, dance and music. In
Spain, he operated mainly in theaters and festivals, such as, Lliure National Drama
Centre Theatre Spanish, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona,
Grec Festival, among others.
He worked regularly with directors such as Lluís Pasqual (The House of Bernarda Alba,
Hamlet, The Tempest, Quitt) and Carme Portaceli (Richard II,
Ante la jubilación, King Lear, Prometheus, La nostra classe)
and also with Mario Gas, Helena Pimenta, Sergi Belbel, Victor Ullate and Ernesto
Caballero.
As a stage director, in 2003 he created and directed the Shakespeare Festival Santa
Susana, where he directed in 2007 the world premiere of the unpublished text: Hamlet:
Day of Murders by Bernard-Marie Koltès.
Mr Azorin directed opera, Zarzuelas and theater productions, amongst which it is
worth mentioning: Con los pies en la luna a documentary opera by Antoni
Parera Fons (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Real and Teatro de la Maestranza), Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (Teatro Circo Murcia and Festival
of Classical Theatre), Tosca by Giacomo Puccini (Gran Teatre del Liceu and
Teatro de la Maestranza) and La voix humaine by Francis Poulenc (Canal Theatre
and Gran Teatre del Liceu), Una Voce in Off by Xavier Montsalvatge (Gran
Teatre del Liceu) and Salomé by Richard Strauss (Festival of Mérida), Otello
by Giuseppe Verdi (Festival de Peralada).
In October 2015 he made his debut in Italy directing and designing the new production
of Don Giovanni at Teatro Comunale di Sassari.
Mr Azorin is a recipient of important awards: the Critics Award Serra d'Or 2004,
Butaca 2004; Josep Solbes 2005 Prix de la Generalitat Valenciana for Best Lighting
and Set Design for Sopa de Pollo con Cebada; Premio de las Artes Escénicas
de la Generalitat Valenciana for best set design 2008 for Los enredos de Scapin;
Butaca award 2009 and Premio de la Asociación de Directores de Escena de España
(ADE) both for The House of Bernarda Alba, production at the Teatre Nacional
de Catalunya and Teatro Español in Madrid which also won the Premio Ceres for Best
Set Design (2013).
Critics have highlighted the aesthetic contribution and the variety of genres and
formats of Paco Azorin through which he has managed to draw a clearly personal line.
Plans include: Otello
at the Macerata Opera Festival, Turandot (as set designer) at the Festival
de Peralada, Escuadra hacia la muerte (as set designer) CDN in Madrid, Salome
at the Festival International de Musica de Granada.
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