Carlus Padrissa
Stage Director
Carlus Padrissa is one of the six artistic directors of the innovative Spanish theater company La Fura dels Baus, founded in 1979. Padrissa was the driving force behind the group’s participation in the opening ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, which he and Àlex Ollé directed. Padrissa’s early work in opera and in collaboration with Ollé and the plastic artist Jaume Plensa began with Falla’s La Atlántida (1996) and Debussy’s Le martyre de Saint Sébastien (1997). These were followed by La damnation de Faust (Salzburg Festival), The Magic Flute (Ruhr Biennale) and many others. One of La Fura’s most ambitious projects was converting Naumon, a barge 60 meters long and weighing 1,100 tons, into a modern floating performance center that has logged more than 40,000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean all the way to the China Seas. Padrissa has also directed Turandot (2011) at Bavarian State Opera, Tannhäuser (2010) at La Scala, Parsifal (2013) at the Cologne Opera, Elektra (2014) in Sweden, Karl V (2019) in Germany and, to name a few.