Antony McDonald (Stage Director) Royal Designer for Industry. Part of the British Team of Designers
winning the Golden Triga at the 2003 Prague Quadrennial for Un Ballo
in Maschera, Bregenz Festival, and in 1991 for the 1989 RSC
production of Hamlet.
As Director/Designer Antony has just
completed his Ring Cycle for the Nationale Reisopera, Holland, where
he also made Manon and King Priam. For Grange Park
Opera, Wonderful Town, Rusalka, Queen of Spades;
Maria Stuarda (Opera North); Tsarevitch (South Bavarian
Theatre); The Knot Garden, Aida, Samson and Dalilah
(Scottish Opera).
Recent designs: The Makropolous Case
(Frankfurt); The Gambler (ROH); The Cunning Little Vixen
(Netherlands Opera); Billy Budd (Frankfurt, Amsterdam);
Jiulietta (Paris Opera, Geneve, English National Opera);
Un Ballo in Maschera and La Boheme (Bregenz
Festival, lake stage), all with Dir. Richard Jones. Prima Donna
by Rufus Wainwright (Manchester International Festival/Sadlers
Wells/Toronto/New York City Opera); A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
The Merry Widow (Met, New York); The Trojans, Midsummer
Marriage (Opera North), Nabucco (WNO and ROH); Cherubin
(ROH); Beatrice and Benedict (Santa Fe and ENO), Benvenuto
Cellini (Netherlands Opera); Ariadne auf Naxos (Munich) — all
Dir. Tim Albery. Eugene Onegin (ROH and Los Angeles Opera) —
Dir. Steven Pimlott.
Dance with Ashley Page: The Nutcracker,
Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Alice, Pennies from
Heaven, Fearful Symmetries, and Cheating Lying Stealing
(Scottish Ballet), the last two of which were originally created for the
Royal Ballet.
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