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(Brussels and Poland), and he will stage the
inauguration of the new La Seine Musicale
theater in Paris.
TIM HATLEY*
(
Set De-
signer
) has earned acclaim
in opera, theater, dance,
and film. His operatic
work has been highlighted
by productions at the
Aix-en-Provence Festival
(
The Marriage of Figaro
),
Cologne Opera (
The Love
for Three Oranges
), Opera North (
Carmen
,
Orpheus in the Underworld
,
Il ritorno d’Ulisse
in patria
), and Scottish Opera (
Ariadne auf
Naxos
). Theater credits include productions
for the National Theatre and London’s West
End (
Dreamgirls
,
Travesties
,
Humble Boy
,
The
Bodyguard, Ghosts
), and on Broadway (
The
Crucible
,
Vincent in Brixton
,
The Country Girl
,
Private Lives
, and the original productions of
Spamalot
and
Shrek the Musical
which both
moved to the West End and on U. K. and
U. S. tours). Hatley has worked with the
Royal Ballet (
Don Quixote,
Carmen
),
Rambert (
Roughcut
), Northern Ballet Theatre
(
Cinderella
), and English National Ballet
(
Unrequited Moments
). His film work includes
Stage Beauty
,
Closer
, and
Notes on a Scandal
. His
work has been honored with multiple Tony,
Drama Desk, Olivier, and Evening Standard
Award nominations and wins. Winner of the
Olivier for Best Set Design in 1997 (
Stanley
)
and in 2002 (
Humble Boy, Private Lives
), he
received Tonys in 2002 (
Private Lives
) and
2009 (
Shrek the Musical
, Drama Desk Award
for both sets and costumes).
PHILIPPINE
ORDINAIRE*
(
Assistant
Set Designer
) received her
training from London’s
St. Martins College of Art.
She has collaborated with,
among others, designers
Christian Fenouillat (
Fin
de Partie
,
Caligula
,
Pour
Ceux qui Restent
), Chantal Thomas (
La
Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein
,
La traviata
),
and Tim Hatley (
Singin’ in the Rain
,
My
Fair Lady
). In Paris she recently worked with
Robert Carsen on two exhibitions,
Splendeurs
et Misères
(Musée d’Orsay) and
Volez Voguez
Voyagez
(Grand Palais). Ordinaire’s designs
have appeared in
Le Brâme des biches
(Bussang),
Les Temps Aventureux
(1, 2, 3 Opera! Festival),
and
Don Giovanni
(Trieste’s Teatro Verdi).
ANTHONY POWELL*
(
Costume Designer
) is one of
today’s most distinguished
figures in design for stage
and screen. He launched
his career with the world’s
first revival since its
original 1712 premiere of
Handel’s
Rinaldo
(London,
Berlin, Dresden, and Halle). He then designed
Sir John Gielgud’s production of
The School
for Scandal,
for which he won the Tony Award
for best costumes and a nomination for best
scenic design. Among his many film credits are
Papillon
, two of the
Indiana Jones
films,
Hook
,
and Disney’s
101
and
102 Dalmations
. He has
earned six Oscar nominations, of which he won
three –
Travels with My Aunt
,
Death on the Nile
,
and
Tess
. Powell’s designs for Richard Strauss’s
Capriccio
(with Renèe Fleming in Paris)
can be seen on DVD. He collaborated with
Andrew Lloyd Webber on the six worldwide
productions of
Sunset Boulevard,
and his
costumes for the recent Théâtre du Châtelet
productions of
My Fair Lady
(reprised at St.
Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre) and
Singin’
in the Rain
earned critical acclaim. Among
many other international honors, he was given
lifetime achievement awards in Hollywood,
New York, and Italy and was appointed a Royal
Designer in his native England.
FRÉDÉRIC LLINARES*
(
Assistant Costume Designer
)
has assisted in the design
of productions at Paris’s
Théâtre du Châtelet (14
works, ranging stylistically
from
The Barber of Seville
and Wagner’s rarely heard
Die Feen
to
My Fair Lady,
Carousel
,
Into the Woods
, and
The Sound of
Music
), Aix-en-Provence Festival (
Rigoletto
),
Théâtre du Rond-Point (
René l’Enervé
), and
Lausanne Opera (
Eugene Onegin
,
The Magic
Flute
), among other venues. Llinares has
also worked with St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky
Theatre (
My Fair Lady
) and Geneva’s Grand
Théâtre (
Wozzeck
).
GIUSEPPE DI IORIO*
(
Co-Lighting Designer
) is
originally from Naples and
studied in London at the
Guildhall School of Music
and Drama. His current
season is highlighted by
a wide variety of pro-
ductions, including
Anna
Bolena
(Lisbon and Seville),
Così fan tutte
(Rome),
Fidelio
(Bucharest),
Carmen
(Athens),
and Cavalli’s
Hipermestra
(Glyndebourne).
He has designed a wide variety of productions
ranging from
The Golden Cockerel
(Bergen
National Opera) and
Cinderella
(Teatro
Heredia in Cartagena, Colombia), to
Rigoletto
(Athens’s Megaron),
The Makropulos Affair
,
and
Boris Godunov
(both at St. Petersburg’s
Mariinsky Theatre). His production designer
work can be seen in
Elektra
and Vittorio
Gnecchi’s
Cassandra
(Catania’s Teatro Bellini),
Il trovatore
(Nuremberg),
Macbeth
(Münster),
Otello
(Kiel),
Carmen
(Saarbrücken Opera),
and
Semele
(Scottish Opera, Milwaukee’s
Florentine Opera). He has also worked at
Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, the Salzburg
Festival, and Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet.
Di Iorio has received the highly prestigious
Premio Abbiati prize for both
Mosè in Egitto
(Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival, 2011) and
Die Gezeichneten
(Palermo, 2010).
MARK GREY
(
Sound
Designer
)’s association with
Lyric Opera has encom-
passed seven productions
since 2007/08, most re-
cently
The King and I
,
The Merry Widow
(both
2015/16), and
Carousel
(2014/15). Grey made
history as the first sound designer of the
New York Philharmonic (2002) and the
Metropolitan Opera (five productions since
2015, most recently
Iolanta/Bluebeard’s
Castle
). For more than two decades,
professional sound design relationships have
led Grey to premiere works by such artists
and organizations as John Adams, Steve
Reich, Philip Glass, Peter Eötvos, Terry Riley,
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, and
many others. Productions include
St. Matthew
Passion
(Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle/
Peter Sellars at the Park Avenue Armory,
New York, 2015). He designed and toured
extensively with Kronos Quartet for nearly
15 years and is also a longtime collaborator of
composer John Adams. As a composer, Grey
has recently undertaken commissions for the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Los
Angeles Philharmonic. His opera
Frankenstein
premiered at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
(Brussels) on June 14, 2016.
*Lyric debut