My Fair Lady

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(Brussels and Poland), and he will stage the inauguration of the new La Seine Musicale theater in Paris.

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). 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. 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

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,

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

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.

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).

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,

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

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 ).

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).

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),

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*Lyric debut