Steen Bjarke
Steen Bjarke was a lighting designer with the Royal Danish Theatre from 1973 to 2001, where he lit all the main operas and ballets, including works of the Danish choreographer August Bournonville. He created the light designs for numerous international theatre companies and choreographers such as Maurice Béjart, Kevin McKenzie, John Neumeier, Peter Schaufuss, Wayne Eagling, Tim Rushton und Alexei Ratmansky. He was one of the first lighting designers to use motion-controlled lights, which are used to create entire set pieces that interact closely with the dancers. He worked principally on ballets by John Cranko: in 1989 for »Onegin« with Jürgen Rose’s stage designs for the Royal Danish Ballet, subsequently also for the Royal Ballet, London, Houston Ballet, Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris and the Bolshoi Ballet as well as for this production designed by Elisabeth Dalton for the Norwegian National Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Het Nationale Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Hungarian National Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin and the ballet companies of Rio de Janeiro, Prague, Warsaw and in 2006 for the Ballet of the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper. Furthermore, he has designed the lighting for Cranko's »The Taming of the Shrew« and »Romeo and Juliet«.
Since 2001 he has been working as a freelance light designer at the big opera houses, amongst others, for the Chinese National Ballet, Beijing, Metropolitan Opera, New York and the Teatro alla Scala, Milano. In recent years, he has also begun to create stage and lighting design in personal union. As a regular guest at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, he was in charge of the light design for Bournonville’s »A Folk Tale« with set designs by HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, and after this production received the Order of Merit. He also designed the lighting for Bournonville’s »La Sylphide« for the Leipzig Opera and the stage design, lighting and video projections for »La Ventana« for the Royal Danish Ballet. Moreover, Steen Bjarke created the light design for productions of »Swan Lake«, such as the for the Georgian and the Polish National Ballet.
Performances with Steen Bjarke
Abo 21
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 02. November 2025 | Pelléas et Mélisande |
| 01. Februar 2026 | La Traviata |
| 15. Februar 2026 | Jewels (Ballett) |
| 15. März 2026 | Le grand macabre |
| 21. Juni 2026 | Il trittico |
| 11. Oktober 2026 | Carmen |
| 29. November 2026 | Onegin |
| 31. Jänner 2027 | Don Carlos |
| 28. Februar 2027 | Norma |
| 23. Mai 2027 | Lulu |
Abo 5
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 12. September 2025 | Die Zauberflöte |
| 05. Dezember 2025 | Madama Butterfly |
| 30. Jänner 2026 | Jewels (Ballett) |
| 20. Februar 2026 | Le grand macabre |
| 24. April 2026 | Simon Boccanegra |
| 11. September 2026 | Adriana Lecouvreur |
| 23. Oktober 2026 | Die Entführung aus dem Serail |
| 04. Dezember 2026 | Onegin |
| 30. April 2027 | Carmen |
| 18. Juni 2027 | Andrea Chénier |
Ballettzyklus »Ballettgeschichten«
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Vom arroganten Dandy zur traurigen Schwanenkönigin bis hin zu Frankreichs berühmtester Monarchin und der freiheitliebendsten Frau der Musikgeschichte. Die Ballettgeschichten versprechen Drama und Spannung und jede Menge Gefühl!
Abo 11
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 01. Oktober 2025 | Il barbiere di Siviglia |
| 03. Dezember 2025 | Věc Makropulos |
| 11. März 2026 | Don Pasquale |
| 08. April 2026 | Parsifal |
| 27. Mai 2026 | Manon (Ballett) |
| 23. September 2026 | La clemenza di Tito |
| 18. November 2026 | Madama Butterfly |
| 16. Dezember 2026 | Onegin |
| 07. April 2027 | Manon Lescaut |
| 05. Mai 2027 | Die tote Stadt |