Born in 1972, Kudlička studied set and costume design at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and at the Academy of Arts in the Dutch city of Groningen.
Since joining the Polish National Opera in 1995, he has worked together with director Mariusz Treliński on more than a dozen productions that have been met with critical acclaim and enthusiastic reception from audiences.
These include Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Szymanowski’s King Roger, Verdi’s Otello and La Traviata, and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.
He also designed sets for a double bill of Bartók’s The Bluebeard’s Castle and Tchaikovsky’s Yolanta directed by Treliński at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Kudlička has also worked with prestigious international opera houses such as the Royal Opera House in London, Staatsoper Berlin, Washington Opera, Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Theater an der Wien, and the Royal Operas in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
Beyond theatre, Kudlička has won a reputation for his work as a designer of exhibitions, including the Polish pavilions at the Expo events in Hanover in 2000 and Shanghai in 2010; a display at Chopin’s birthplace in Żelazowa Wola near Warsaw; and exhibitions of Italian Baroque and Renaissance painting at the National Museum in Warsaw.
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