Golden Gate Opera - Marin County Opera

Scenic Designer is the designer of GGO's colorful storybook setting for Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. He is a San Francisco based artist and illustrator who specializes in works related to music, literature and the state. Mr. Kroboth designs set and costumes for musicals, ballet and opera and has illustrated books and done artwork for magazines and album covers, theater poster and film strips. His artwork has been exhibited in the United States and Canada and in galleries in Europe and Russia. He has created the stage and/ or costume designs for productions of Un Ballo in Maschera, Pacific Opera Victoria (British Columbia, Canada), The Snow Queen, Studio 450 Theater (San Francisco), Leoncavallo's La Bohème, Opera York (Toronto, Canada), Hansel and Gretel, Golden Gate Opera (San Francisco), Most Happy Fella, California Historical Society Gala Fund Raiser, Enter the Guardsman, Lamplighters Musical Theater (San Francisco), Boy Gets Girl, and Wonder of the World for Actor Theatre (Santa Rosa, CA).

He also designed and stage directed Parlante's Rossini's 51st Birthday concert featuring members of the San Francisco Symphony. He has done sets for Lee Hoiby's opera, Something New For the Zoo, Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and G&S's Ruddigore for Cinnabar Theater ( Petaluma , CA ). In December 2005 his sets and costumes were seen in a highly acclaimed world premier opera based on Dickens' A Christmas Carol for the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus ( Toronto ). Trinity Lyric Opera (Bay Area) selected his set and costume designs for its inaugural production of Vaughan Williams' Pilgrim's Progress in June 2006 and in 2007 he did the costumes and poster for TLO's The Tenderland by Aaron Copland. Patrick was asked to design the 6th Street Studio Theater in Santa Rosa in it's inaugural production of Becky Mode's Fully Committed, a play that he had also designed for Ross Valley Players ( Marin County ) in July 2007.

He is responsible for set designs for RVP production of Shadowlands by William Nicholson, a large-scale Hansel and Gretel opera design for the Marin Civic Center Auditorium, Robert Ward's The Crucible and Gift of the Magi by David Conte for Trinity Lyric Opera.