Set and costume designer. He trained at London’s Wimbledon School of Art‚ and is recognized as one of the leading stage designers of his generation. He was honoured by Liverpool Institute of the Performing Arts with an honorary Doctorate, and was shortlisted for Best Designer at the 2022 International Opera Awards. Recent projects include Aida (St Gallen), Simon Boccanegra (Latvian National Opera), Francesca da Rimini and Manon Lescaut (La Scala‚ Milan)‚ Antigone (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Leipzig), Le nozze di Figaro (Israel Opera), I puritani (Barcelona)‚ Werther (Nancy‚ winner of Prix Claude Rostand, Quebec, Marseille)‚ Al Wasl (Welsh National Opera, Dubai), Der Zigeunerbaron (Geneva)‚ Katya Kabanova (Scottish Opera, Magdeburg), Billy Budd and The Merry Widow (Opera North)‚ Peter Grimes (Magdeburg, Basel), The Excursions of Mr Broucek (Grange Park Opera), Rusalka (Santa Fe), The Marriage of Figaro (Kansas, Philadelphia, San Diego)‚ Fiddler on the Roof (Malmö)‚ La clemenza di Tito (St Louis)‚ Carmen (Welsh National Opera)‚ Twelfth Night and Death of a Salesman (Manchester Royal Exchange). // The list of the productions below is complete - Last update of the biography: March 2023.

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Production Title :Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

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Role: Set designer

Production Response
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is very much an idea of identity and an affirmation of our place in history. There is a romanticism in the piece that suggests a folkloric interpretation, but for the director, Sir David Pountney, and Leslie Travers, this was not enough. They decided to frame the narrative of the piece, a singing competition, within the tumultuous events of the twentieth century. The set is a meeting point for a community, an archive, both concrete in texture and in permanence. It is a display, an amphitheatre where nostalgia is layered against a documentary reality, where war sullies nostalgia. To summarize, it is an older Germany through the lens of the world that brought about modernism.

Year: October 2021

Location/Venue: Leipzig, Germany

Credits
Company: Oper Leipzig
Composer: Richard Wagner
Director: Sir David Poutney
Costume design: Marie-Jeanne Lecca
Lighting design: Fabric Kebour
Photographer: Leslie Travers