Diana Marszałek studied graphic design and art history. In 2005 she graduated with honours from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, with a degree in stage design. She has designed the stage and costumes for nearly 40 productions staged at Poland’s major theatres, including the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, the Powszechny, the Polski, the Ateneum and the Polonia in Warsaw; the Muzyczny in Gdynia; the Polski and Współczesny in Wrocław, the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków; the Poznań Opera House and Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz. She worked on such film productions as Katyń and Felix, Net and Nika.
She worked on a range of opera and ballet productions. In 2014 she designed the stage for the Łódź Grand Theatre’s production of The Barber of Seville, which later received the Złota Maska award. For Opera Nova she designed the stage for Robert Bondara’s ballet Captive Mind after Czesław Miłosz set to music by Philip Glass and Wojciech Kilar. Together with Julia Skrzynecka she designed the stage and costumes for Bondara’s Persona staged by the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera and for Čiurlionis by Giedrius Kuprevičius and Robert Bondara produced by the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre. Together with director Natalia Babińska, Ms Marszałek designed the stage for Opera Nova’s production of Verdi’s Rigoletto and Moniuszko’s Halka (with Julia Skrzynecka) staged as part of the 20th Bydgoszcz Opera Festival.
(photo by M. Malicki)