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Patrick Kroboth is a San Francisco-based artist and illustrator who
specializes in works related to music, literature, and the stage. His
primary focus is designing set costumes for musicals, ballet, and opera,
but he is also a book illustrator and has done artwork for magazines,
album covers, theater posters, and film strips. His artwork has been exhibited in the United States, Canada, and in galleries
throughout Europe and Russia.
In the theater world Mr. Kroboth has created stage and/or costume
designs for productions of Un Ballo in Maschera (Pacific Opera
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada); The Snow Queen (Studio 450
Theater, San Francisco, CA); Leoncavallo’s La Boheme (Opera York,
Toronto, Canada), Hansel and Gretel (Golden Gate Opera, San
Francisco); Most Happy Fella (California Historical
Society Gala Fund Raiser, San Francisco); Enter the Guardsman
(Lamplighters Musical Theater, San Francisco); and Boy Gets Girl,
Quickies, and Wonder of the World (Actors Theatre, Santa
Rosa, CA). He designed and stage directed Parlante’s Rossini’s
51st Birthday Concert featuring members of the San Francisco
Symphony. He has also created sets for several productions of the
Cinnabar theater in Petaluma, CA, including Lee Hoiby’s opera,
Something New for the Zoo, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, and
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore.
In December 2005 the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus featured his sets
and costumes in a highly acclaimed world premier opera based on Dickens'
A Christmas Carol in Toronto, a production that has now become a
yearly holiday tradition there. Trinity Lyric Opera (Castro Valley, CA)
selected his set and costume designs for its inaugural production of
Vaughan Williams' Pilgrim's Progress in June 2006. Trinity Lyric
Opera subsequently engaged him to design the costumes and
poster
for its 2007 production of Aaron Copland’s The Tenderland and
2008 productions of David Conte's Gift of the Magi and Menotti's
Amahl and the Night Visitors.
In 2007 Patrick was asked to design the
6th Street Studio Theater
in Santa Rosa and its inaugural production of Becky Mode's Fully
Committed, a play that he had previously designed for the Ross
Valley Players (Marin County). This was followed by set designs for the
Ross Valley Players’ 2008 production of William Nicholson’s
Shadowlands.
Next up: A large-scale Hansel and Gretel opera design for the
Marin Civic Center Auditorium, Donizetti’s Lucia
di Lammermoor for North Bay Opera, and set designs for a world
premier opera based on John Steinbeck’s The Pearl by Los Angeles
composer David Avshalomov.
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