George Tsypin Reveals Stage Design Photos & Stories in New Book

Based in New York City, George Tsypin's Opera Factory creates visions of towering gods, underwater kingdoms, skyscraping towers, and earth-bound angels. It was George Tsypin's Seaglass Carousel you saw at the Battery, his Chrysler Building in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, his opening ceremony display at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

This lavishly illustrated monograph introduces production shots and designs, as well as original essays by Tsypin, for twenty of his productions. Tsypin's work is a combination of sculpture, model making, architecture, and scenography. His new book George Tsypin Opera Factory: Invisible City will dazzle fans of theatre, opera, art, design, and architecture. ($60, hardcover, ISBN 9781616895242)

Like Marco Polo in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Tsypin embarks on an imaginary journey to exotic cities only to realize that he never left; each metropolis in this book is a version of New York City. This book is not only a journey through the urban mindscape of Tsypin but also an act of creative mourning for 5Pointz, the open-air mural exhibit where his studio was located until it was demolished in 2014. The book comes out the same day that Guillaume Tell by Rossini opens at the Met Opera, for which George Tsypin designed the set.

George Tsypin, born in Kazakhstan, is an influential American stage designer, sculptor, and architect. He is the recipient of an Outer Critics Circle Award and an Obie Award.