Nick Schlieper interviewed by James Waites [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4702744
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Schlieper, Nick, 1958-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2009
- 4 sound files (ca. 357 min.)
- Summary:
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Nick Schlieper, lighting designer, talks about his involvement with the Sydney Theatre Company and the Australian Opera; his professional development and career as a lighting designer in Australia and Germany in the stage lighting industry; the various productions he was responsible to design and manage; the people and factors that have shaped his professional growth; his observations of productions and actors; his family background; his older brother’s influence; NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art); relationship with set designers; the impact of computerisation and technological changes on his profession; designing lights for Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler; the art of lighting design and its impact on actors; Pepsico Summerfare Festival, New York; witnessing the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of Germany; his responsibilities as the lightning designer for Wagner’s ‘The Ring Cycle’ in Adelaide, 2004; designing ‘The Season at Sarsaparilla’.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 19 September, 24 September and 2 October 2009 at Darlinghurst, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (11 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 219 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Waites, James, 1955-2014, interviewer
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Until 2079 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2009
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