Michael Levine

Levine is Toronto born and raised. He has worked internationally as a set and costume designer for the past 35 years. He graduated from Ontario’s Art’s College and studied stage design at The Central School of Art and Design in London. His work has been honoured with a Gemini Award, Paris Critics Prize, The Edinburgh Festival Drama and Music Award, Two Dora Awards and a Toronto Arts Award. Michael is a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres. Recently Michael designed for Zurich Opera, Young Vic Theatre, Festival D’Aix, Madrid Opera; National Ballet of Canada, COC, Lyon Opera, Nederlandse Opera, Complicate, Baden Baden Festival, Met Opera, Paris Opera and Glyndebourne Festival.

Le Petit Prince

“Le Petit Prince is a magical, strange, odd, illogical, philosophical and melancholy. It speaks of friendship, loss, love, and death. The choreographer and I wanted somewhere that could transform in the same way, but most importantly somewhere that represented the journey of the characters in the outer space of the story and also the inner space of the characters.”

Le Petit Prince Sketches

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Le Petit Prince Production Photos

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Le Petite Prince Sketchbook Drawings

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Wozzeck

“Wozzeck – The director and I were searching for a way to release Wozzeck from a specific political and social reference point. We wanted to find a metaphor for the cruelty at the centre of the story of Wozzeck free from time and place. The story of Wozzeck is not particular to the time it was written. It;s a universal story that is not period specific, repeating itself from one generation to the next on many levels of society. We began to look at Punch and Judy and the violence and movement language in these children’s puppet shows felt close to the storytelling and music in Wozzeck. The design is an exploration of that world.”