Theater Arts Through the Lens: 12 Years and a Visual Legacy of Over 100 Productions
For me, capturing theater is not mere documentation; it is the rebirth of the stage moment on the silver screen. My close collaboration with the Szigligeti Theater in Oradea between 2012 and 2024 established the complex professional vision that serves as the Wraith Dreams hallmark today. During the visual creation of more than 100 performances, I did not only manage multi-camera technical setups and precise editing workflows, but I also enhanced the dramatic power of these productions with Director of Photography, Senior Editor, and Colorist expertise.
While this specific chapter as a primary theater associate has concluded, Wraith Dreams remains dedicated to high-end performing arts recordings. We continue to offer full-scale visual execution for premium, multi-camera theater, opera, or concert recordings on a commission basis, regardless of location.
“Your unique editing technique revolutionized the concept of theater recording for me.” – László Harsányi Sulyom, Director (regarding the play Tango).
My goal with every recording is for the viewer not only to see the production but to feel the sacred energy of the stage through the screen.
Multi-camera recordings filmed and edited by Norbert Zsolt Szabó:
Szigligeti Theatre Oradea 2013
Szigligeti Company | Sophocles: "Oedipus" | Dir. István K. Szabó | Premiere: 05.12.2012 | editing only
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | Adult tale based on the story of Áron Tamási: "Black Saffron" | Dir. Csaba László | Premiere: 10.04.2012 | editing only
Szigligeti Company | Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais: "The Barber of Seville" | Dir. Zalán Zakariás | Premiere: 10.19.2012 | editing only
Szigligeti Company | Alan Jay Lerner — Frederick Loewe: "My Fair Lady" | Dir. Attila Réthly | Premiere: 12.31.2012 | editing only
Szigligeti Company | Friedrich Dürrenmatt: "Romulus the Great" | Dir. István K. Szabó | Premiere: 02.01.2013 | editing only
Szigligeti Company | Within the framework of the "School in the Theatre, Theatre in the School" program: "Dreams" | 03.27.2013 | editing only
Lilliput Company | István Kormos: "Kormos képpel mutogat" | Dir. László Rumi | Premiere: 04.13.2013
Szigligeti Company | András Forgách: "The Boy" | Dir. András Forgách | Premiere: 05.24.2013
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev: "Kite" — A Month in the Country | Dir. Zsolt Harsányi | Premiere: 10.11.2013
Lilliput Company | Ilona G. Szász: "Tündérléptefű" | Dir. Rita Bartal Kiss | Premiere: 12.21.2013
Ki mit tud? | Talent show in Oradea | 2013
Szigligeti Theatre Oradea 2014
Szigligeti Company | Kai Hensel: "Klamm's War" | Dir. Viola Török | Premiere: 11.16.2009
Szigligeti Company | Giulio Scarnacci — Renzo Tarabusi: "Caviar and Lentils" | Dir. Zoltán Lendvai | Premiere: 12.31.2013
Szigligeti Company | Within the framework of the "School in the Theatre, Theatre in the School" program: "Liliomfi Remix" | Premiere: 01.22.2014
Szigligeti Company | Samuel Beckett: "Waiting for Godot" | Dir. István K. Szabó | Premiere: 03.05.2014
Szigligeti Company & Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | György Selmeczi — Attila Béres: "Szigligeti" | Dir. György Selmeczi | Premiere: 03.08.2014
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | Dániel Nagy — Bodolay: "The World Circus" | Dir. Tamás Juronics | Premiere: 05.16.2014
Szigligeti Company | Ferenc Molnár: "Liliom" | Dir. János Szikora | Premiere: 10.10.2014
Lilliput Company | György Szomor — Miklós Szurdi — Attila Valla: "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" | Dir. Tünde Tóth | Premiere: 11.29.2014
Szigligeti Theatre Oradea 2015
Szigligeti Company | Dezső Kellér — Jenő Horváth — Iván Szenes: "The Rape of the Sabine Women" | Dir. Imre Halasi | Premiere: 12.31.2014
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | Euripides: "Electra" | Dir. Csaba Györfi | Premiere: 01.17.2015
Szigligeti Company | Tadeusz Slobodzianek: "Our Class" | Dir. Anca Bradu | Premiere: 03.20.2015
Szigligeti Company | Based on the work of William Shakespeare, within the framework of the "School in the Theatre, Theatre in the School" program: "Romeo and Juliet" | Premiere: 03.30.2015
Szigligeti Company | Lajos Parti Nagy — Ferenc Darvas: "Ibusár" | Premiere: 05.08.2015
Szigligeti Company | Tímea-Aletta Szíjártó: "The Case" | Dir. Sardar Tagirovsky | Premiere: 09.21.2015
Lilliput Company | János Berze Nagy — Gyula Illyés — Emese Egyed: "Two Tales Under the Linden Tree" | Dir. Artúr Vranyecz | Premiere: 10.05.2015
Szigligeti Company | Gergely Csiky: "Bubbles" | Dir. Eszter Novák | Premiere: 10.09.2015
Szigligeti Company | Andor Szilágyi: "Leander and Lenszirom" | Dir. Tünde Tóth | Premiere: 11.20.2015
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | Federico García Lorca: "YERMA-21" | Dir. Kristóf Widder | Premiere: 11.27.2015
Szigligeti Theatre Oradea 2016
Szigligeti Company | "Happiness Express" | Dir. László Harsányi Sulyom | Premiere: 12.31.2015
Lilliput Company | Ervin Lázár: "The Four-Cornered Round Forest" | Dir. Attila Szabó | Premiere: 02.26.2016
Szigligeti Company | Choderlos de Laclos — Christopher Hampton: "Dangerous Liaisons" | Dir. Iván Hargitai | Premiere: 03.12.2016
Szigligeti Company | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Three Sisters" | Dir. Attila Balogh | Premiere: 03.18.2016
"The Tallest Tree" | Dir. Tibor Lélek Sándor | Premiere: 04.16.2016
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble & Central Europe Dance Theatre | Gioachino Rossini — Attila Kun: "Stabat Mater" | Dir. Attila Kun — KET | Premiere: 04.16.2016
Szigligeti Company | Csaba Székely: "Mineflower" | Dir. István Hunyadi | Premiere: 08.19.2016
Lilliput Company | Hans Christian Andersen — Tibor Zalán: "The Ugly Duckling" | Dir. Tünde Tóth | Premiere: 09.09.2016
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | "Kata's Story" — dance play based on William Shakespeare's comedy "The Taming of the Shrew" | Dir. Csaba László | Premiere: 09.16.2016
Szigligeti Company | "Theatre in the School — School in the Theatre": "Who will I be when I grow up?" | Dir. Eszter Novák | 10.03.2016
Szigligeti Company | Joël Pommerat: "My Little Fridge" | Dir. Theodor Cristian Popescu m. v. | Premiere: 10.14.2016
Szigligeti Company | Milán Füst: "Aunt Máli" | Dir. Gábor M. Koltai | Premiere: 11.11.2016
Szigligeti Theatre Oradea 2017
Szigligeti Company | 1880–2020: "Ode to Time" | Dir. Sardar Tagirovsky | Premiere: 12.10.2016
Szigligeti Company | Szabolcs Fényes — Imre Harmath: "Maya" | Dir. Eszter Novák | Premiere: 12.31.2016
"Maya" — trailer
Szigligeti Company | Based on János Arany: "Whence and Whither" — The Poetry of János Arany | Dir. Eszter Novák | Premiere: 03.02.2017
"János Arany" — trailer
Szigligeti Company | "Casting Faces of Thrones" | Dir. Attila Balogh | Premiere: 03.04.2017
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | "Barbarians" — based on the short story by Zsigmond Móricz | Dir. Csaba Györfi | Premiere: 03.10.2017
Szigligeti Company | Molière: "The Misanthrope" | Dir. Eszter Novák | Premiere: 04.28.2017
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | "VANmeSE" | Dir. Jolán Foltin | Premiere: 06.13.2017
Szigligeti Company | Péter Körmöczi-Kriván: "Goalpost and Own Goal" | Dir. Péter Tasnádi-Sáhy | Premiere: 09.21.2017
Szigligeti Company | Sławomir Mrożek: "Tango" | Dir. László Harsányi Sulyom | Premiere: 09.30.2017
Lilliput Company | Based on the story by Vladimir Suteev: "Little Chick and Little Duck" — 2017 | Dir. Attila Szabó | Premiere: 09.30.2017
Bertolt Brecht — Paul Dessau: "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" | Dir. Anca Bradu | Premiere: 11.05.2017
Szigligeti Theatre Oradea 2018
Szigligeti Company | Kornél Hamvai — Dániel Varró — Benedek Darvas: "Quarantine in the Grand Hotel" | Dir. Dorka Porogi | Premiere: 12.31.2017
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | "Nobody's Bird" | Dir. Tünde Tóth | Premiere: 01.26.2018
Cooperation between the Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble and amateur folk dance ensembles from Bihor county | "Bridge Inauguration" — dance theatre performance from the ballads of János Arany | Premiere: 03.14.2018
Szigligeti Company | Józsi Jenő Tersánszky: "Marci Kakuk" | Dir. Péter Gothár | Premiere: 04.07.2018
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | "Blind Spot" | Dir. Imola Tőkés | Premiere: 04.27.2018
Szigligeti Company | Miklós Hubay — György Ránki — István Vas: "Three Nights of a Love" | Dir. Eszter Novák | Premiere: 05.19.2018
Szigligeti Company | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Platonov" | Dir. Bálint Botos | Premiere: 06.15.2018
"Platonov" — trailer
Lilliput Company | Dániel Varró — Gábor Presser: "Beyond the Smudge Mountain" | Dir. Rita Bartal Kiss | Premiere: 09.08.2018
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | "Golden Nook" | Dir. Tamás Szalay | Premiere: 09.30.2018
Szigligeti Company | William Shakespeare: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | Dir. Jakab Tarnóczi | Premiere: 10.19.2018
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" — trailer
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | "Stranger" | Dir. Csaba Györfi | Premiere: 10.25.2018
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | Gergő Sánta: "Sea of Peoples" | Dir. Gergő Sánta | Premiere: 12.08.2018
Szigligeti Company | Lionel Bart: "Oliver!" | Dir. Tünde Tóth | Premiere: 12.19.2018
Szigligeti Company | Jenő Heltai: "Mothball" | Dir. Eszter Novák | Premiere: 12.31.2018
Szigligeti Theatre Oradea 2019
Szigligeti Company | "The Lost Rider" | Dir. Péter Tasnádi-Sáhy | Premiere: 09.14.2018
Szigligeti Company | "Who Saw Ady?" | Dir. László Harsányi Sulyom | Premiere: 01.19.2019
Szigligeti Company | Matei Vișniec: "Occident Express" | Dir. Zalán Zakariás | Premiere: 03.01.2019
Lilliput Company | L. Frank Baum: "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" — 2019 | Dir. Tibor Lélek Sándor | 05.19.2019
Szigligeti Theatre Oradea 2020
Lilliput Company | Based on the story by Vladimir Suteev: "Little Chick and Little Duck" — revised 2020 version | Dir. Attila Szabó | Premiere: 09.30.2017
Szigligeti Company | Ernő Szép — Sándor Guelmino: "Purple Acacia" | Dir. Bálint Botos | Premiere: 10.26.2019
Szigligeti Company | Magda Szabó — Zoltán Egressy: "Lala the Fairy" | Dir. Tünde Tóth | Premiere: 11.08.2019
Szigligeti Company | Viktor Jacobi: "Sybill" | Dir. Márk Tárnoki | Premiere: 12.31.2019
Lilliput Company | G. V. Matveev: "The Magic Galoshes" | Dir. Lajos Seres | Premiere: 02.16.2020
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | "Soldier's Song" | Dir. Gábor Mihályi | Premiere: 02.21.2020
Szigligeti Company | Sári O. Horváth: "Child's Play" | Dir. Bálint Szilágyi | Premiere: 04.03.2020
Szigligeti Company | "Phoenix Project" | Dir. Bálint Botos | Premiere: 08.14.2020
Szigligeti Company | William Shakespeare: "Hamlet" | Dir. Péter Telihay | Premiere: 08.29.2020
Lilliput Company | László Dés — István Nemes — György Böhm — György Korcsmáros — Péter Horváth: "Somewhere in Europe" | Dir. Csaba Györfi | Premiere: 09.10.2020
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | "Solo Dances" | Dir. Csaba Györfi | Premiere: 09.22.2020
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker" | Dir. Csaba Györfi and Tamás Topolánszky | Premiere: 08.20.2021
Szigligeti Theatre Oradea 2021
Szigligeti Company | "Homecoming" — based on the poems of Sándor Weöres | Dir. Péter Tasnádi-Sáhy | Premiere: 11.22.2013
Szigligeti Company | Heinrich von Kleist: "The Schroffenstein Family" | Dir. D. Dániel Kovács | Premiere: 03.06.2020
"The Schroffenstein Family" — trailer
Szigligeti Company | "Cabaret 120" | Dir. Eszter Novák | Premiere: 12.31.2020
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | Sándor Petőfi: "John the Valiant" — dance theatre performance | Dir. Csaba Györfi | Premiere: 01.21.2021
Szigligeti Company | Friedrich Dürrenmatt: "The Visit" | Dir. Eszter Novák | Premiere: 11.17.2021
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | Sophocles: "Antigone" | Dir. Csaba Györfi | Premiere: 11.21.2021
Szigligeti Theatre Oradea 2022
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | Dezső Fitos and Enikő Kocsis: "Happy Peacetime" | Dir. Dezső Fitos | Premiere: 03.15.2022
Szigligeti Company | Nikolai Erdman: "The Suicide" | Dir. Bálint Botos | Premiere: 04.01.2022
Szigligeti Company | Áron Tamási: "Deceptive Rainbow" | Dir. Péter Telihay | Premiere: 10.07.2022
Szigligeti Theatre Oradea 2023
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | Péter Novák: "Godly" | Dir. Péter Novák | Premiere: 12.04.2022
Szigligeti Company | Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais: "The Marriage of Figaro" | Dir. Bálint Botos | Premiere: 12.31.2022
Szigligeti Company | Gianina Cărbunariu: "Magyarosaurus Dacus" | Dir. Gianina Cărbunariu | Premiere: 02.03.2023
Nagyvárad Dance Ensemble | Boris Vian: "The Schmürz" | Dir. Csaba Györfi | Premiere: 03.10.2023
Szigligeti Company | "Nature's Wildflower" — Petőfi 200 | Dir. Eszter Novák | Premiere: 03.15.2023
Szigligeti Company | Péter Kárpáti: "I, the Worm" — Kafka Cabaret | Dir. D. Dániel Kovács | Premiere: 03.31.2023
Szigligeti Company | Tamás Olt — Edina "Mókus" Szirtes — Szabolcs R. Váradi: "Thorn Castle" | Dir. Csaba Györfi | Premiere: 09.03.2023
Szigligeti Theatre Oradea 2024
Szigligeti Company | Imre Kálmán: "The Csardas Princess" | Dir. Eszter Novák | Premiere: 12.31.2023
Additional multi-camera performance recordings
Premiere of dance ensembles at the Szigligeti Theatre | "Golden Branch Myth" | Dir. Zsolt Juhász | Premiere: 03.15.2014
Oradea State Philharmonic | Faculty of Arts of the University of Oradea & Faculty of Music of the University of Debrecen | "Opera Without Borders" | 2016
Kataning Association | Gala Evening | 2016
Oradea May Festival, fashion show | 2016
William Shakespeare: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | Dir. Hunor Bucz | Premiere of the Térszínház from Budapest | 2017; Salonta
Outdoor performance by the Francisc Hubic School of Arts Wind Orchestra and the Derecske City Wind Orchestra | 2018.09.15.
Hungarian Opera of Cluj-Napoca | "Stabat Mater" | Dir. Emese Szabó | Premiere: 04.18.2019
"The Gospel of Mary" — 2019 | Performers: László Tolcsvay — Péter Müller — Péter Müller Sziámi | Pannonia Sacra Mixed Choir | Conductor: Katalin Silló
Tranzit House, Cluj-Napoca | Performance by the Cluj Táncház, anniversary concert | 11.12.2019
Hungarian Opera of Cluj-Napoca | "The Bat" | Dir. Máté Szabó | Premiere: 12.21.2019
Hungarian Opera of Cluj-Napoca | "The Chronicler" | Dir. György Selmeczi | Premiere: 01.20.2020
Hungarian Opera of Cluj-Napoca | "The Magic Flute" | Dir. Gábor Tompa | Premiere: 10.03.2020
Hungarian Opera of Cluj-Napoca | "Musical Advent Calendar" | Dir. Emese Szabó | Premiere: 12.09.2020
Hungarian Opera of Cluj-Napoca | "Beethoven 250" — 2021 | Dir. Annamária Gombár | Premiere: 12.27.2020
Ilián G. Nagy: "Prince Csaba" — Szekler national rock opera — 2020 | Nívót Production
Album release performance of the Soroglya band | "Faces — Moods" | Band leader: Levente Dallos | 07.08.2021
Meeting of the Transylvanian Catholic Charismatic Renewal | Adoration and Holy Mass | Franciscan Church, Oradea | 10.14.2023
IDO Romania National Championship – 2023 Edition – Performing Arts | 2023
Ecumenical Concert at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Oradea | 12.17.2023
Kiss Studio Theater | Géza Tabéry - Dream Ship | Premiere: 2024.01.26
