Diana Marszałek earned a degree in Stage Design from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She has designed sets and costumes for nearly 50 opera, ballet and theatre productions for leading Polish and international companies, including the Polish National Opera, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Vilnius, Poznań Opera House, Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, Powszechny, Polski, Ateneum and Polonia in Warsaw, Muzyczny in Gdynia; Polski and Współczesny in Wrocław, and Słowackiego Theatre in Kraków.
In 2014 she designed sets for the Łódź Grand Theatre’s production of The Barber of Seville, subsequently awarded the Złota Maska Award. She worked on such film productions as Katyń and Felix, Net and Nika. Major opera and ballet credits include sets for Robert Bondara’s ballet Captive Mind after Czesław Miłosz set to music by Philip Glass and Wojciech Kilar (Opera Nova); sets and costumes for Bondara’s Persona for the Polish National Opera and Bondara and Giedrius Kuprevičius' Čiurlionis for the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre (together with Julia Skrzynecka), Verdi’s Rigoletto and Moniuszko’s Halka for Opera Nova (with Julia Skrzynecka) staged as part of the 20th Bydgoszcz Opera Festival.
(photo by M. Malicki)
