Thavoris designs The Lady from the Sea
Yannis Thavoris has designed the sets and costumes for The Lady from the Sea for Scottish Opera, in a co-production with the Edinburgh International Festival, which opened in Edinburgh on 29 August, before transferring to Glasgow on 8 and 9 September. The production won a Herald Angel of the year. This re-telling…
Blakeley, Puissant & Reiffenstuel triumph with Pearl Fishers
Lee Blakeley‘s new production of Pearl Fishers, with set and costume designs by fellow Performing Arts clients Jean-Marc Puissant and Brigitte Reiffenstuel, has opened at Santa Fe Opera to enthusiastic reviews. Headlining their reviw ‘A Pearl of Great Price’, the Santa Fe Reporter said ‘Lee Blakeley’s inventive stage direction includes one or two coups de…
Written on Skin, lit by Jon Clark, opens to standing ovation in Aix
George Benjamin’s long-awaited new opera Written on Skin, with libretto by Martin Crimp, opened to a standing ovation at its premiere in Aix-en-Provence. Directed by Katie Mitchell, with lighting by Jon Clark, France Today described it as ‘almost certainly headed straight for any list of the best operas of the 21st century so far…. Staged…
Thavoris designs ‘a mighty set’ for Tosca
The new Tosca at Santa Fe Opera, designed by Yannis Thavoris, has been described as ‘a stellar production’ by the Examiner, with ‘a mighty set depicting the grand architecture of the ancient city in keeping with the opera’s historical period’. One of four Performing Arts clients working at the Santa Fe Opera…
Andrew George choreographs Les Troyens
Andrew George has choreographed a new production of Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz at the Royal Opera House, directed by Sir David McVicar: http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/les-troyens-by-david-mcvicar The staging, designed by Es Devlin, is on an enormous scale, assembling one of the largest casts ever seen at Covent Garden, and featuring an enormous fire-breathing…
Acclaim for Annabel Arden’s new La Bohème
Described as ‘a sparkling triumph’ by the Telegraph and awarded **** by both The Guardian and The Times, Annabel Arden‘s new production of La Bohème for Welsh National Opera is not to be missed. The Observer hailed it as ‘unshowy but radiant and affecting…Arden takes few liberties with the story yet tells it powerfully,…