Biography
Has designed for opera, theatre, film and television.
Most recent opera productions include:
L'elisir d'amore (Opera North, Welsh National Opera, director Daniel Slater, 2000)
Paradise Moscow (based on Shostakovich's operetta Moskva, Cheryomushki, Opera North, director David Pountney, 2001)
Berg’s Wozzeck (Santa Fe Opera, director Daniel Slater, 2001)
Rigoletto (Welsh National Opera, director James Macdonald, 2002)
Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen (Bregenz Festival, San Francisco Opera, Grand Theatre de Geneve, director Daniel Slater, 2003)
Der fliegende Hollander (Opernhaus Zurich, Welsh National Opera, director David Pountney, 2004)
Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (Deutsche Oper Berlin, director David Pountney, 2005)
Britten’s Peter Grimes (Santa Fe Opera, director Paul Curran, 2005)
Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery (Glyndebourne Festival, director Daniel Slater, 2006)
Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten (Ruhr Triennale, director David Pountney, 2006)
Recent theatre includes:
Redundant by Leo Butler (Royal Court Theatre, director Dominic Cooke, 2001)
The Malcontent by John Marston (Royal Shakespeare Company, West End, director Dominic Cooke, 2002)
The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht (National Actors Theatre New York, director Simon McBurney, 2002)
Julius Caesar (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, director Mark Thomson, 2003)
Promises Promises (music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, book by Neil Simon, based on the screenplay The Apartment by Billy Wilder, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, director
Angus Jackson, 2005) - TMA Best Design Award
Carousel by Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers, based on Liliom by Ferenc Molnar (Chichester Festival Theatre,
director Angus Jackson, 2006)
Pinocchio after Carlo Collodi, adapted by Mark Thomson (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, director Mark Thomson, 2006)
Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Liverpool Playhouse, director Edward Dick, 2007)
The Pain and the Itch by Bruce Norris (Royal Court, director Dominic Cooke, 2007)
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (Young Vic, director Matthew Dunster, 2007)
Other work includes:
Comedy of Errors (Royal Shakespeare Company, director Tim Supple, 1996)
The Servant of Two Masters (Royal Shakespeare Company, director Tim Supple, 2000)
Romeo and Juliet (Royal National Theatre, director Tim Supple, 2000)
The Villain's Opera (music by Stephen Warbeck, book and lyrics by Nick Dear based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, Royal National Theatre, director Tim Supple, 2000)
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