Download Werther - Minnesota Opera

Werther
Artist Biographies
Joseph Beutel (Le Bailli)
Joseph Beutel, bass, joins Minnesota Opera’s Resident Artist program
after spending the summer as a Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Artist,
where he covered Méphistophélès in Faust and the Catholic Priest
in The Last Savage. Previous roles have included the
Impresario/Direttore in the young artist production ofViva La
Mamma! at Seattle Opera, Benoit and Alcindoro in La bohème for
South Texas Lyric Opera; Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Mustafà
in L’italiana in Algeri, Simone in Gianni Schicchi, Le Roi
in Cendrillon and Herr Reich in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor for IU
Opera Theatre; and the Sergeant in Pirates of PenzanceWestern
Michigan University.
Mr. Beutel is a district finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National
Council Auditions in 2011 and a Palm Beach Opera Competition
Encouragement Award recipient in 2010 and 2011. For Minnesota
Opera this season, he will appear as the British Major in Silent Night,
Le Bailli in Werther, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor and the Bonze
in Madame Butterfly.
Christoph Campestrini (conductor)
Conductor Christoph Campestrini resides in Vienna and received his
musical education in the United States. He studied in New York City
at the Juilliard School while simultaneously majoring in philosophy
and languages at Columbia University. In addition to German and
English, he speaks Italian, French, Russian and Spanish.
Following his studies at Juilliard and Columbia, he was the only
European chosen to be admitted to the founding class of the
prestigious Yale University Affiliate Artists Conducting Program. While
at Yale, he worked with prominent conductors such as Lorin Maazel,
Wolfgang Sawallisch and Kurt Sanderling.
After his return to Europe he started an active international career,
conducting more than 80 Symphony Orchestras on all 5 continents.
Among them are the London Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Sinfonie
Orchester Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Stuttgart Philharmonic,
Cologne Radio Symphony, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen,
Moscow Radio Symphony, Prague Radio Symphony, Prague
Philharmonia, Vienna Radio Symphony, Mozarteum Orchestra
Salzburg, Orchestre Lamoureux Paris, Orchestre National du Capitole
de Toulouse, Queensland Philharmonic, Israel Sinfonietta and many
others. He has worked with such soloists as Gidon Kremer, Julian
Rachlin, Rudolf Buchbinder, Sharon Kam, Julia Fischer and Emmanuel
Pahud.
Equally in demand as an accomplished opera conductor, Campestrini
has served as principal conductor at the prestigious Essen Aalto
Musiktheater and the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra, where he
conducted more than 15 different operas in over 100 performances.
Other opera credits include the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in
Düsseldorf (Die Zauberflöte), Opera Lyra Ottawa (Le nozze di Figaro),
Austin Lyric Opera (Don Giovanni), and Carinthian Summer Festival,
Cremona Opera, National Opera of Vietnam, Zagreb National Opera
and the Hong Kong Opera Academy.
Season 2011–2012 brings a Beethoven Gala with the Indianapolis
Symphony and Lang Lang as soloist, his debut with the Rochester
Philharmonic, and a production of Massenet’s Werther in the pit of the
Minnesota Opera.
Among last season’s North American highlights figured engagements
with the Vancouver Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Grand Rapids
Symphony, and Quebec Symphony, in addition to an appearance at
the Round Top Festival. He also appeared for a New Year’s concert at
the Teatro Regio in Torino, and led the Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal
and the Nürnberg Symphony as well as L'Orchestre philharmonique
Royal de Liège at Vienna’s Musikverein and the opening concert of the
Carinthian Summer Festival.
During the 2009–2010 season he returned to the Sakai City Opera
with Massenet's Cendrillon, debuted with the Indianapolis Symphony,
the Orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra (Spain), the Hungarian Radio
Symphony Budapest and returned for re-engagements with
orchestras such as Calgary Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic and
Brno Philharmonic. He also made a return to Yale Opera with Le
nozze di Figaro.
The conductor’s 2008–2009 season debuts included Opera Lyra
Ottawa in performances of Le nozze di Figaro with the National Arts
Centre Orchestra in the pit, as well as Sakai City Opera in Osaka,
Japan with a performance of Rusalka. The National Symphony
Orchestra of Taiwan was another debut. Additionally, he was reengaged to the San Antonio, Toledo and Oregon symphonies, the
latter in a subscription series. The 2007–2008 season was perhaps
one of Campestrini’s most important seasons yet. Major debuts with
the Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony,
Vancouver Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Florida Orchestra, San
Antonio Symphony, Huntsville Symphony, the Texas Music Festival,
The International Festival-Institute at Round-Top and the Seoul
Philharmonic figured alongside re-engagements with the Colorado
Symphony and Santa Rosa Symphony.
In Europe, he maintains a permanent relationship with the Czech
State Philharmonic Brno, which he conducts in several programs each
season as well as on tour. In addition, he works with orchestras such
as the Camerata Salzburg, Bruckner Orchestra Linz and the Slovak
Philharmonic.
Roxana Constantinescu (Charlotte)
Roxana Constantinescu had already enjoyed several earlier
competition successes in Belgium-Concours de Chant Verviers, ItalyCompetizione Tito Schipa, Romania-Ionel Perlea and Mihail Jora
Competitions or Germany-Paul and Helga Hohen Competition, but it
was as the winner of the prestigious ARD Music Competition-Munich
in September 2006 that her international career was launched. Ms
Constantinescu subsequently joined the Ensemble at Vienna State
Opera in the 2007–2008 season making her house debut as
Cherubino–Le nozze di Figaro, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
In Vienna, where Roxana remained in the Ensemble through the end
of the 2009–2010 season, further roles and experience to date have
included Zerlina in Don Giovanni; Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia;
Siébel in Faust; Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette; Lola in Cavalleria
rusticana; Nicklausse in Les contes d’Hoffmann; Dryade in Ariadne
auf Naxos and Fjodor in Boris Godunov, among others.
The 2010–2011 season’s highlights include the debut as Donna Elvira
in a new production of Don Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera, the
title role in La Cenerentola in a new staging at the Minnesota Opera, a
company debut with the Dallas Opera and new productions of Oberon
and Così fan tutte at Theatre du Capitole in Toulouse.
This season features Miss Constantinescu’s debut with the Los
Angeles Opera as Despina in Così fan tutte, her first appearance at
the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, a new
production of Werther with Minnesota Opera, a new staging of Les
contes d’Hoffmann as Nicklausse at Theater an der Wien and a tour in
South America.
After her prize-winning success in Italy, Miss Constantinescu was
invited to make her debut as Angelina in La Cenerentola at the Teatro
Politeama di Lecce and went on to appear as Rosina in Il barbiere di
Siviglia at Austria’s Tirol Festival. It was also as Rosina that Roxana
enjoyed great acclaim in Cologne when she took over the opening
night at short notice in September 2007.
Other operatic appearances to date have included Ramiro in La finta
giardiniera and Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Munich’s
Prinzregententheater; Conception in L’heure espagnole at Italy’s
Teatro Diego Fabbri; Holofernes in Juditha Triumphans at Munich’s
House of Art and Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus at both
Bucharest’s State Opera and Essen’s Philharmonie.
As a concert singer, Roxana Constantinescu is in high demand and
had recently her concert debut at Carnegie Hall and Chicago’s
Symphony Hall singing Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Boulez. The subsequent
compact disc recording was nominated for a Grammy awards.
Roxana enjoys an ongoing relationship with Helmuth Rilling and has
performed with him around the world in music by Bach, Haydn,
Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn, and also presented the world
premiere of Messiah by Sven David Sandström at the Oregon Bach
Festival. Other conductors with whom Roxana Constantinescu has
enjoyed collaborations include Gerd Albrecht, Marco Armiliato,
Bertrand de Billy, Paolo Carignani, Dan Ettinger, Adam Fischer,
Manfred Honeck, Graeme Jenkins, Sir Neville Marriner, Kirill Petrenko,
Christoph Poppen, Yannik Nézet-Séguin, Peter Schneider, Marco
Zambelli, Sebastian Weigle and Franz Welser-Möst.
Also an avid recitalist Roxana Constantinescu has performed in
Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Bucharest,
Frankfurt, Munich and Washington as well as extensively in the Far
East. Even at this early stage in her career, Roxana Constantinescu
has already participated in numerous recordings for Haenssler
Classic, OEHMS Classics, SWR, CSO-Resound, Artmode Records,
Weltbild and Carus Verlag.
Born in Bucharest, Roxana Constantinescu first studied percussion
and piano at the George Enescu Music Academy, continuing with
voice at the National University of Music. In 2003, she was awarded
an Erasmus Scholarship to attend Vienna’s prestigious University of
Music and Fine Arts, and a DAAD scholarship enabled her to attend
postgraduate studies at the University of Music and Theater in Munich
with Edith Wiens.
Jessica Jahn (costume designer)
Jessica Jahn danced professionally in New York City before beginning
a career in design. She has had the opportunity to work on various
projects with directors such as Tina Landau, Kevin Newbury, Robert
O’Hara and Carl Andress, artist Michael Counts, as well as writers Eisa
Davis, Norah Ephron and Charles Busch.
New York: Monodramas at New York City Opera; Love, Loss and
What I Wore at the Westside Theatre; Die Mommie Die! at New World
Stages (winner of the Lucille Lortel Award).
Regional: In the Red and Brown Water at the Alliance Theatre, La
Cenerentola at Glimmerglass Opera; Il trovatore, Roberto Devereux
and Maria Stuarda at Minnesota Opera; Life Is A Dream (world
premiere) at Santa Fe Opera; and Die Leibe der Danae at Bard
Summerscape.
Upcoming: Maria Stuarda at Houston Grand Opera, La bohème at
Central City Opera and Anna Bolena at Minnesota Opera.
John Robert Lindsey (Schmidt)
Colorado native tenor John Robert Lindsey is a recent graduate of the
University of Colorado at Boulder where he earned his Master of
Music in vocal performance under the tutelage of Julie Simson. Past
engagements include Tenor Soloist in the Messiah by Handel, Sam
Polk in Susannah by Floyd, the character of Stage Manager in Our
Town by Rorem and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni by Mozart. Mr.
Lindsey was met with numerous successes in competitions in the
recent past. He was a regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera
National Council Auditions for the past two years, as well as taking
third place in 2010 and first place in 2011 at the prestigious Denver
Lyric Opera Guild competition.
For Minnesota Opera’s 2011–2012 season, Mr. Lindsey will appear as
Jonathan Dale in Silent Night, Schmidt in Werther, Normanno in Lucia
di Lammermoor and Goro in Madame Butterfly.
Angela Mortellaro (Sophie)
Soprano Angela Mortellaro returns to the Minnesota Opera's Resident
Artist program for a second season, singing the roles of Despina in
Così fan tutte, Madeleine in Silent Night, Sophie in Werther, the title
role in the second cast of Lucia di Lammermoor and Kate Pinkerton in
Madame Butterfly. Last season, she was seen as Amore in Orpheus
and Eurydice, Clorinda in Cinderella and Annina in La traviata . Ms.
Mortellaro has sung the role of Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with both
PORTOpera and Sarasota Opera. She was a Caramoor Opera Bel
Canto Young Artist and a Chautauqua Opera Apprentice Artist, where
she sang Edith in The Pirates of Penzance and Anna Gomez in The
Consul. For Orlando Opera Company, Ms. Mortellaro sang Sister
Genovieffa in Suor Angelica, Sally in Die Fledermaus and Clorinda in
La Cenerentola. The soprano also appeared as Clorinda for Aspen
Opera Theatre as well as Frasquita in its production of Carmen.
Internationally, she has performed Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro for
Operafestival di Roma.
Ms. Mortellaro has a master of music degree in vocal performance
from Rice University (Houston, Texas), where she sang Diana in La
Calisto, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Sandrina in La finta giardiniera
and the Governess in The Turn of the Screw. She completed her
bachelor of music degree at the University of Wisconsin (Whitewater).
Allen Moyer (set designer)
Recently: Orfeo ed Euridice for the Metropolitan Opera, directed by
Mark Morris, The Last Savage (scenery and costumes) and The Tales
of Hoffmann for Santa Fe Opera, The Death of Klinghoffer for Opera
Theatre of St. Louis, Virginia (scenery and costumes) for the Wexford
Festival, Nixon in China for the Canadian Opera Company, plus many
productions for San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Scottish
Opera, Washington National Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Welsh
National Opera, L’Accademia di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Seattle Opera
and several productions for New York City Opera, including Gertrude
Stein and Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All, Il trittico, Il viaggio a
Reims and La bohème (also broadcast on Live from Lincoln Center).
Mr. Moyer also designed the premiere of the Ricky Ian Gordon and
Michael Korie’s The Grapes of Wrath, Norma, Il trovatore and Il
barbiere di Siviglia for the Minnesota Opera, the Delibes ballet Sylvia
for The San Francisco Ballet and Romeo and Juliet: On Motifs of
Shakespeare (for the Mark Morris Dance Group), both choreographed
by Mr. Morris.
Broadway: Lysistrata Jones, the musical Grey Gardens (Tony/Drama
Desk/Outer Critic’s Circle nominations and the 2006 Hewes Award
from the American Theater Wing), After Miss Julie, Little Dog
Laughed, Twelve Angry Men (including the national tour) and The
Constant Wife. Extensive theater credits include productions for
Playwright’s Horizons, The Public Theater/NYSF, Second Stage, The
Roundabout Theatre, Signature Theatre Company, The Drama Dept.,
the Guthrie, Manhattan Theater Club and Lincoln Center Theater
Company.
Upcoming: Die Fledermaus (Canadian Opera Company), Alice in
Wonderland (Opera Theatre of St. Louis).
Moyer is the recipient of a 2006 OBIE Award for sustained excellence.
Kevin Newbury (stage director)
Kevin Newbury is a theater and opera director based in New York
City. Recent opera credits include Maria Stuarda and Roberto
Devereux (Minnesota Opera), Die Liebe der Danae (Bard
Summerscape), Virginia (Wexford Opera Festival), Life is a
Dream and Falstaff (Santa Fe Opera), Eugene Onegin (Opera Theatre
of St. Louis), Roberto Devereux (L'Opéra de Montréal), El niño (San
Francisco Symphony), Hänsel und Gretel (Virginia Opera),
Rappahannock County (Virginia Arts Festival, National Tour), La
Cenerentola (Glimmerglass Opera) and Bernstein’s Mass (Carnegie
Hall, Kennedy Center, Grammy nomination). Recent New York theater
credits include Candy and Dorothy (GLAAD Media Award Winner,
Drama Desk Nominee), The Second Tosca and Kiss and Cry (GLAAD
Nominee).
Upcoming engagements include the world premieres of The Gospel
According to Mary Magdelene (San Francisco Opera), Oscar (Santa Fe
Opera and Opera Compay of Philadelphia), Doubt (Minnesota Opera),
Oceanic Verses (River-to-River Festival/NYC, Barbican/UK) and Fellow
Travelers (NYC). Other upcoming projects include Maria Stuarda
(Houston Grand Opera), Roméo at Juliette (Palm Beach Opera),
Galileo Galilei (Portland Opera), La bohème (Central City Opera),
Anna Bolena (Minnesota Opera) and the film Mothra is Waiting.
Rodolfo Nieto (Johann)
Werther marks bass-baritone Rodolfo Nieto’s third return to the
Minnesota Opera stage since completing his two-year stint as one of
the Opera’s Resident Artists. Earlier this season, he performed the
role of Scottish Soldier in the world premiere of Silent Night. Mr.
Nieto’s roles during his seasons as a Resident Artist included the Third
Inquisitor and Spanish Captain in Casanova’s Homecoming, the
Friend of Nottingham in Roberto Devereux, Colline in La bohème, the
First Guard in Salome and, most notably, Joseph in Wuthering
Heights.
Last summer, Mr. Nieto performed the role of Guglielmo in Così fan
tutte with the Green Mountain Opera Festival. For Cedar Rapids Opera
Theater, he has appeared as Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte (2009), the
Imperial Commissioner in Madame Butterfly (2006) and Pooh-Bah in
The Mikado (2005). During the 2008 season, Mr. Nieto was an Opera
Colorado Young Artist, where he sang the roles of Don Magnifico and
Alidoro in Cinderella and Godofredo in La Curandera.
Nathaniel Peake (Werther)
– performs February 4
A 2010 Metropolitan Opera National Council Winner, American tenor
Nathaniel Peake has been admired for “his ringing tone and effortless
phrasing” (San Francisco Chronicle). The Lansing State Journal
awarded him with a “Thespie” award for Best Actor in a Musical for
his portrayal of the title role of Bernstein’s Candide. In a recent
production of L’amico Fritz, Mr. Peake was lauded for his “brilliant
performance in the title role, deploying a clarion tone that moved as
deftly through the graceful ease of Act I as through the more
emotionally urgent writing of the latter acts.” (San Francisco
Chronicle).
An exciting season for 2011–2012 includes a return to the San
Francisco Opera as Tamino in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, a new
production by Jun Kaneko, conducted by Rory Macdonald, and debuts
with Seattle Opera as Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and
Edgardo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at Minnesota Opera. Mr.
Peake will return to Syracuse Opera in a role debut as Alfredo in
Verdi’s La traviata and to Wolf Trap Opera for his title role debut in
Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann and as Pirelli in Sondheim’s
Sweeney Todd.
Nathaniel Peake began the 2010–2011 season performing Pinkerton in a new
production of Madama Butterfly at Houston Grand Opera as well as
Scaramuccio in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, Arturo in Donizetti’s Lucia
di Lammermoor. He also presented a recital at the Morgan Library
with legendary mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick as part of The George
London Foundation recital series. In the summer of 2010, Mr. Peake
was seen on the stages Wolf Trap Opera as Sultan Soliman in
Mozart’s Zaïde, Albazar in Rossini’s Il turco in Italia and Snout in
Britten’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream. He also performed in concert
with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Gabriel Preisser (Albert)
Praised for his power and presence both as a singer and actor by the
Houston Chronicle, Gabriel Preisser originally hails from the small town of
Apopka, Florida. Most recently, he received rave reviews for his
performance of Lt. Gordon in the world premiere of Kevin Puts’ Silent Night
with Minnesota Opera and will be reprising the same role with the Opera
Company of Philadelphia next year. Indeed, Mr. Preisser has made a name
for himself performing new works with composers such as Daniel Catán,
Daron Hagen, Ricky Ian Gordon and Robert Aldridge. He was the title role in
Aldridge’s Elmer Gantry, Tom Joad in Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath,
Riolobo in Catan’s Florencia en el Amazonas and Antonio in Hagen’s New
York Stories. Opera News made note of his “beautifully sung and beautifully
portrayed” Yamadori for Kentucky Opera’s Madame Butterfly last fall, and
his Masetto at Utah Festival Opera was played “with a delicious mixture of
jealous outrage and bewilderment … commanding the spotlight with vocal
talent.” Mr. Preisser is truly comfortable on any stage and in a wide range
of repertoire from Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia to Prince Ottokar in Der
Freischütz. Other major roles include Danilo in The Merry Widow, the title
role of Don Giovanni, John Brooke in Adamo’s Little Women, Papageno in
Die Zauberflöte, Achille in Giulio Cesare, the Shoe Salesman and Puppet in
Argento’s Postcard from Morroco and Ubalde in Lully’s Armide with such
companies as Des Moines Metro Opera, Mercury Baroque, Utah Festival
Opera, Pensacola Opera and the Moores Opera Center. Upcoming he can be
seen as Yamadori in Madama Butterfly with Minnesota Opera, Bob Baker in
Wonderful Town with Skylark Opera, and as the baritone soloist for
Mississippi Valley Orchestra’s Carmina burana.
Mr. Preisser was honored as a district winner in the 2010 Metropolitan
Opera National Council Competition and won the American finals of the
International Lirico Concorso Competition this past summer. He graduated
summa cum laude from Florida State University with a double major in
vocal performance and commercial music and completed a Masters in Voice
at the University of Houston
James Valenti (Werther)
– performs January 28, 31, February 2, 5
American tenor James Valenti has been hailed for having a voice of
Italianate beauty, for his handsome stage presence, ardent singing and for
his elegant musicianship in performances with the leading opera companies
of the world. He studied at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and
made his professional debut at the age of 25 as Rodolfo in La bohème
(Rome Opera). Other performances include Alfredo Germont in La traviata
(Royal Opera House London and Japan Tour with Anna Netrebko, Simon
Keenlyside and Antonio Pappano, Metropolitan Opera New York with Angela
Gheorghiu and Thomas Hampson, Canadian Opera Company Toronto,
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Salzburg Festival),
Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto (Maggio Musicale Florence, Dallas Opera, Palm
Beach Opera), Rodolfo (La Scala Milan with Gustavo Dudamel, Dresden
Semperoper, Miami, Santander Spain, Tokyo, Minnesota Opera), Werther
(Opéra de Lyon, Tokyo), Faust (Trieste), Lt. Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly
(Royal Opera House filmed in 3D on DVD, Paris Opéra – Bastille, Genoa,
Marseilles, Chicago, Vancouver, San Francisco and on a PBS Live from
Lincoln Center telecast), Roméo (Minnesota Opera) and Maurizio in Adriana
Lecouvreur (Washington DC). James has recorded for Virgin/EMI Classics
with Ms. Gheorghiu.
Considered one of the brightest rising stars of his generation, James was
the winner of the prestigious 2010 Richard Tucker Award and 2009 Maria
Callas Award. Plans include concerts in Toronto, Copenhagen and St.
Petersburg, Russia, Alfredo (Royal Opera House London with Marina
Poplavskaya and Leo Nucci, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Dallas Opera),
Faust (Royal Opera House London with Rene Pape and Dimitri
Hvorostovsky), Werther (Minnesota Opera) and Lucia di Lammermoor
(Opera Australia Sydney). He looks forward to future debuts in Zurich, Lyric
Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera and a return to the Met.
D.M. Wood (lighting designer)
D. M. Wood’s recent design credits include Hänsel und Gretel (Virginia
Opera), Il trittico (Royal Opera House – Covent Garden), Die Liebe der
Danae (Bard Summerscape), co-design for the world premiere of Anna
Nicole (Royal Opera House – Covent Garden), Moskva, Cheremushki (Long
Beach Opera), Green Sneakers, Orpheus and Euridice and Glory Denied
(Urban Arias, Washington, D.C.), Mary Stuart, Roberto Devereux, Il
barbiere di Siviglia and Il trovatore (Minnesota Opera); Roberto Devereux
(L’Opéra de Montréal), Annie Get Your Gun (co-design: Young Vic, London),
La Cenerentola (Glimmerglass Opera), Die Zauberflöte (Houston Grand
Opera); The Sound of a Voice/Hotel of Dreams (Long Beach Opera), Les
Miserables (Copenhagen, Denmark), Tosca (Canadian Opera Company), La
Cleopatra/Oedipus Rex (Operahaus Graz, Austria), Tristan und Isolde
(Savonlinna Opera, Finland) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric Opera
of Kansas City).
Ms. Wood’s work in theater includes designs for American Repertory
Theatre (A.R.T.), Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF), Primary
Stages (NYC), NYSF – the Public Theatre, Children’s Theater Company
(Minneapolis), Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Baltimore Centerstage,
Trinity Repertory Company and the Philadelphia Theatre Company.
Upcoming designs include Roméo et Juliette (Palm Beach Opera), the world
premiere of Wild Swans (A.R.T. and the Young Vic, London) and Anna
Bolena (Minnesota Opera).