Roberto Oswald
Director/Set Designer/Lighting Designer

Roberto Oswald was born in Buenos Aires and began his career in that city at the Teatro Colon in 1963, where he went on to design more than 140 stage sets for opera and ballet. From 1977 he started to take on the triple role of Director/Set/Lighting in opera houses in Europe and North and South America. He received awards from the Music Critics of Santiago de Chile for eight consecutive years, as well as winning first prize from the National Association of Fine Arts in 1968 and in 1992 the Platinum Konex Prize for Best Staging.

Most recently his prize-winning productions have included Turandot, Faust and Der fliegende Holländer, and in 1998 Oswald was nominated Maestro de las Artes by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. In that same year he produced Der Ring des Nieblungen in Dallas, Norma in Baltimore and Jenufa and Il Trovatore for Santiago de Chile. Oswald works in close association with Placido Domingo at Washington Opera and in 2001 received critical acclaim for his production of Wagner’s Gotterdammerung.

Roberto Oswald has directed all the Anna Livia productions to date and we look forward to his new productions of Rigoletto and Samson & Dalila specially designed for the Anna Livia Dublin International Opera Festival.

Anibal Lapiz
Costume Designer

Anibal Lapiz graduated from the Instituto Superior of the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires as a Theatrical Designer and Costume Designer and travelled to Europe to further his career. On his return, he began his collaboration with Roberto Oswald, designing operas for ballets and operas including Nabucco, Hansel und Gretel, Les Noches and Spartacus.  He has also designed costumes for stage productions in Germany, Canada, Venezuela, Chile, USA, Spain, Brazil and Ireland. In Chile he shared with Roberto Oswald the “Laurel de Plata” for their 1997 production of Macbeth, Benvenuto Celini and Siegfried, and his costumes for Salome were chosen in the USA as the Best Wardrobe of the Year  for Opera. 

In recent years his work has included Samson & Dalila and Die Walküre in Teatro Colon which received the Argentinian Critics’ Prize for the Best Production of the Year.

Anibal Lapiz has designed the costumes for all the Anna Livia productions to date and we look forward to his new designs for our 2008 productions of Rigoletto and Samson & Dalila.