Antony McDonald
Director and Designer
Antony McDonaldDirector and Designer |
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| Work as Director and Designer Royal Designer for Industry. Winner of Set Design Award, International Opera Awards 2013
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| 2016 | |
| Boris Godunov | Grange Park Opera Costume Design: Gabrielle Dalton |
| 2015 | |
| Fiddler on the Roof | Grange Park Opera Chor. Lucy Burge Costume Design: Gabrielle Dalton |
| 2014 | |
| Lohengrin | Polish National Opera Lighting Design: Lucy Carter |
| 2013 | |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | NI Opera |
| L'Enfant et les Sortileges (Revival) | Bolshoi Theatre. Moscow |
| Lohengrin | Welsh National Opera co-production with Polish National Opera Lighting Design: Lucy Carter |
| 2012 | |
| L'Enfant et les Sortileges | Bolshoi Theatre. Moscow |
| Queen of Spades | Grange Park Opera Choreographer: Lucy Burge |
| Gotterdammerung | Nationale Reisopera Associate Costume Designer: Gabrielle Dalton Choreographer: Lucy Burge |
| 2011 | |
| Rusalka (revival) | Grange Park Opera Associate Costume Designer: Gabrielle Dalton Choreographer: Lucy Burge |
| Siegfried | Nationale Reisopera Associate Costume Designer: Gabrielle Dalton Choreographer: Lucy Burge |
| 2010 | |
| Die Walkure | Nationale Reisopera Associate Costume Designer: Gabrielle Dalton Choreographer: Lucy Burge |
| Maria Stuarda | Opera North Lighting Design: Lucy Carter |
| 2009 | |
| Das Rheingold | Nationale Resiopera Associate Costume Designer: Gabrielle Dalton Choreographer: Lucy Burge |
2008 |
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| Rusalka | Grange Park Opera Associate Costume Designer: Gabrielle Dalton Choreographer: Lucy Burge |
| 'Played out in a sinister woodcut, with pale, cold moon and leafless, grey-green trees, McDonald's Rusalka is virtually flawless...' Anna Picard, The Sunday Independent |
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| 'McDonald, whose simple, evocative sets and sumptious fin de siecle costumes rank with his finest designs, explores the dark side of the myth, bringing it closer to the disturbing and gory narrative of Andersen's The Little Mermaid.' Hugh Canning, The Times | |
| Tsarevitch | Sudostbayerisches Stadtetheater, Germany Choreographer: Lucy Burge |
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1992 - 2006 |
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Manon |
Nationale Reisopera |
| 'Director and Designer Antony McDonald surrounded Manon with an historical ambiance... Beautifully done.' Peter van der Lint Trouw, The Netherlands Press | |
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The Knot Garden |
Scottish Opera |
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Wonderful Town |
Grange Park Opera |
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Aida |
Scottish Opera |
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King Priam |
Nationale Reisopera, Netherlands |
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Aida |
Scottish Opera |
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The Makropolous Case |
Scottish Opera Go Round |
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Snatched by the Gods |
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Broken Strings |
Scottish Opera |
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Samson and Dalila |
Scottish Opera |
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The Country Wife |
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow |
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The Nine Lives of Gertrude Stein |
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow |
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Escape at Sea |
Second Stride |
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The Birthday Party |
Citizen’s Theatre, Glasgow |
In collaboration with Richard Jones, Festivals 1999 - 2002 Co-director & Co-designer. |
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Un Ballo in Maschera |
Bregenzer Festspiele – Lakeside Stage |
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La Boheme |
Bregenzer Festspiele |
| Filmed by ORF (Austria) and NHK (Japan). | |
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L’Enfant et les Sortileges |
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Der Zwerg |
Garnier Theatre, Paris Opera |
| Work as Designer - Opera | |
| 2014 | |
| La Finta Giardiniera | Glyndebourne Festival Dir. Frederic Wake-Walker Lighting Design : Lucy Carter |
| 2013 | |
| L'Enfant et les Sortileges/Der Zwerg | Opera National de Paris Dir. Richard Jones |
| Billy Budd (revival) | Goteborgs Operan Dir. Richard Jones |
| 2012 | |
| Julietta | English National Opera Dir. Richard Jones |
| Prima Donna (revival) | New York City Opera Dir. Tim Albery |
| Makropolous Case | Frankfurt Opera Dir. Richard Jones |
| Giulietta (revival) | Grand Theatre de Geneve Dir. Richard Jones |
| 2011 | |
| Eugene Onegin (revival) | LA Opera Dir. Robert Carsen |
| Billy Budd (revival) | De Nederlandse Opera Dir. Richard Jones |
| The Cunning Little Vixen (revival) | De Nederlandse Opera Dir. Richard Jones |
2010 |
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| Prima Donna (revival) | Sadlers Wells & The Elgin Theatre, Toronto Luminato Festival Dir. Tim Albery |
| The Gambler | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Dir. Richard Jones |
| 2009 | |
| Prima Donna | World Premiere Manchester International Festival Dir. Daniel Kramer Costume Supervisor: Gabrielle Dalton |
'In Antony McDonald's breathtaking design, Regine's apartment becomes a sensational, animatronic show-home with purple, leopard-print sofas and a team of factotums dressed up as if about to go out and do battle with Batman.' Alfred Hickling, The Guardian |
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| 'It looks fantastic, courtesy of some dazzlingly bold sets designed by Antony McDonald.' Kevin Bourke, City Life | |
| 'First a word about the set. The design, by Antony McDonald, is innovative in its versatility and lends real weight to the story. Flashbacks and dream sequences are dramatised in a colourfully camp way but they also provide gravitas and feeling. Apparently the sets took five days to prepare in the Palace: it was worth it.' Laura Marsden, Manchester Confidential |
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| 2008 | |
| Eugene Onegin (revival) | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden |
| 2007 | |
| Billy Budd | Frankfurt Opera Dir. Richard Jones |
| The Magic Flute | Hyogo Centre for the Performing Arts, Japan Dir. Emmanuelle Bastet |
| 2000 - 2006 | |
| The Cunning Little Vixen | Nederlandse Opera Dir. Richard Jones |
| Eugene Onegin | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Helsinki Co-production Dir. Stephen Pimlott |
| Giulietta (revival) | Opera Bastille Dir. Richard Jones |
| Manon Lescaut | Vienna Staatsoper Dir. Robert Carson |
| Pelleas et Melisande (revival) | Munich Festival |
| Beatrice and Benedict (revival) | Santa Fe Opera Festival |
| Orlando (revival) | Ravenna Festival |
| Giulietta | Paris Opera Dir. Richard Jones |
| Midsummer Night's Dream (revival) | Metropolitan Opera, New York |
| Orlando (revival) | Flanders Opera |
| Beatrice and Benedict (revival) | Nederlandse Opera Dir. Tim Albery |
| Jenufa (revival) | Nederlandse Opera Dir. Richard Jones |
| Acis & Galatea/Dido & Aeneas | Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich |
| The Merry Widow | Metropolitan Opera, New York Dir. Tim Albery |
| Pelleas et Melisande | English National Opera; Opera North (revival); Flanders Opera (2001) Dir. Richard Jones |
| Jenufa (revival) | Lyric Opera, Chicago |
| 1990 - 1998 | |
| Beatrice and Benedict | Santa Fe Opera Dir. Tim Albery |
| Jenufa | Nederlandse Opera Dir. Ricahrd Jones |
| Cherubin (revival) | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Dir. Tim Albery |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Metropolitan Opera, New York Dir. Tim Albery |
| Ariadne auf Naxos | Munich Dir. Tim Albery |
| Nabucco | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden |
| Pelleas et Melisande | Minnesota |
| Orlando | Montpelier & BAM, USA Dir. Robert Carsen |
| Nabucco | Welsh National Opera Dir. Tim Albery. Filmed by BBC Television |
| Figaro (revival) | Sydney Opera House |
| Orlando (revival) | Flanders Opera |
| Cherubin | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Dir. Tim Albery |
| Francesca di Rimini | Bregener Festspiele (Indoor stage) Dir. Robert Fortune |
| Orlando | Champs Elysees, Paris & Caen |
| Orlando | Festival D'Aix en Provence Dir . Robert Carsen |
| The Marriage of Figaro | Sydney Opera House Dir. Tim Albery |
| Benvenuto Cellini | Nederlandse Opera Dir. Tim Albery ; Co-design with Tom Cairns |
| Billy Budd | English National Opera Dir. Tim Albery. Filmed by BBC Television; Co-design with Tom Cairns |
| Beatrice and Benedict | English National Opera Dir. Tim Albery; Co-design with Tom Cairns |
| Les Troyens | Scottish Opera & Royal Opera House, Covent Garden |
| 1983 - 1989 | |
| Les Troyens | Opera Nice |
| Midsummer Marriage | Scottish Opera. Co-design with Tom Cairns |
| Billy Budd | English National Opera Dir. Tim Albery; Co-design with Tom Cairns |
| Les Troyens | Opera North & Welsh National Opera. Dir. Tim Albery; Co-design with Tom Cairns |
| Orlando | Scottish Opera |
| Midsummer Marriage | Opera North
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| Daughter of the Regiment | Belfast Opera |
| Turn of The Screw | Batigniano Festival, Italy |
| Work as Designer - Theatre | |
| 2003 | |
| Nathan the Wise by Lessing | Chichester Festival Thaetre Dir. Stephen Pimlott |
| Private Lives | Citizen's Theatre, Glasgow |
| 1990 - 1999 | |
| Our Late Night by Wallace Shawn Semi-staged |
Royal Court Theatre Dir. Caryl Churchill |
| Wallenstein | Royal Shakespeare Company Dir. Tim Albery |
| Black Snow | American Repertory Theatre, Boston
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| Seagull | American Repertory Theatre, Boston Dir. Ron Daniels |
| Hamlet | American Repertory Theatre, Boston Dir. Ron Daniels |
| Richard II | Royal Shakespeare Company Dir. Ron Daniels |
| Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill | Central School of Speech & Drama; Tour Romania |
| Berenice | National Theatre Dir. Tim Albery |
| 1981- 1989 | |
| As You Like It | Old Vic Theatre Dir. Tim Albery |
| Mary Stuart by Schiller | Greenwich Theatre |
| Hamlet | Royal Shakespeare Company Dir. Ron Daniels |
| Streetcar Named Desire | Sheffield Dir. Tim Albery |
| Les Liaisons Dangereuses | The Gate Theatre, Dublin Dir. Ben Barnes |
| Princess of Cleves | ICA, London Royal Shakespeare Company Dir. Ron Daniels |
| Hedda Gabler | Almeida Theatre Dir. Tim Albery |
| Mrs Gauguin | Almeida Theatre Dir. Tim Albery |
| Tom and Viv | Royal Court Theatre |
| Under Western Eyes | RO Theatre, Rotterdam Dir. Tim Albery |
| Secret Garden | ICA and Mickery Amsterdam Dir. Tim Albery |
| Insignificance | Royal Court Theatre Dir. Les Waters |
| War Crimes | ICA |
| Work as Director/Designer - Dance | |
| 1993 | |
| Escape at Sea | Second Stride Chors Ian Spink & Ashley Page |
| Work as Designer - Dance | |
| 2014 | |
| New Full length Ballet | Vienna State Ballet at the Volsoper Chor. Ashley Page |
| 2012 | |
| The Nutcracker | Scottish Ballet Chor. Ashley Page |
| 'The element of psychological strangeness in the piece is given fabulous visual expression in Antony McDonald's set and costume designs. Huge, monochrome cartoons (a hand holding a pocket watch; a terrifyingly massive mouse; Tchaikovsky himself) make, variously, disconcerting and humorous appearances.' Telegraph | |
| 2011 | |
| Alice in Wonderland | Scottish Ballet Chor. Ashley Page |
| 2010 | |
| Art of Touch (costumes) | Rambert Dance Company Chor. Siobhan Davies |
| 2000-2009 | |
| Carmen | Scottish Ballet |
| Pennies from Heaven | Scottish Ballet |
| Carnival of The Animals | Rambert |
| Sleeping Beauty | Scottish Ballet Chor. Ashley Page |
| Cinderella | Scottish Ballet Chor. Ashley Page |
| Tragedy of Fashion | Rambert Dance Chor. Ian Spink |
| Nutcracker | Scottish Ballet Chor. Ashley Page |
| Hidden Variables | Scottish Ballet Chor. Ashley Page |
| Manoeuvre | English National Ballet Chor. Patrick Lewis |
| Of Oil and Water | Siobhan Davies |
| 1991 - 1999 | |
| Hidden Variables by Colin Matthews | Royal Ballet, Opening dance Programme New House, ROH Chor Ashley Page |
| Fearful Symmetries (revival) | Royal Ballet Chor. Ashley Page |
| Ebony Concerto | Royal Ballet Chor. Ashley Page |
| Now Languorous, Now Wild | Royal Ballet Chor. Ashley Page |
| Badenheim | Second Stride Chor. Ian Spink |
| Fearful Symmetries | Royal Ballet Chor. Ashley Page 1995 Olivier Award for Dance |
| The Glass Blew In | Siobhan Davies Dance Co. |
| Wanting to Tell Stories | Siobhan Davies Dance Co. |
| Why Things Happen | Second Stride |
| White Bird Featherless | Siobhan Davies Dance Co. Filmed by BBC Television |
| Lives of the Great Poisoners | Second Stride |
| 1980 - 1989 | |
| Heaven Ablaze | Second Stride Filmed by BBC Television |
| Fugue | Second Stride Filmed by Channel 4 |
| Weighing the Heart | Second Stride 1988 Olivier Award for Dance |
| Mercure | Rambert Dance |
| Bosendorfer Waltzes | Second Stride |
| Further and Further into the Night | Second Stride |
| Canso Trobar Carnival | London Contemporary Dance Chor. Christopher Bannerman |
| New Tactics | Second Stride Chor. Ian Spink, with Tim Albery |
| Dances from the Kingdom of Pagodas | Royal Danish Ballet Chor. Richard Alston |
| There is no Other Woman | Second Stride |
| Some Fugues | Ian Spink Group Chor. Ian Spink |
| Something to Tell | London Contemporary Dance Chor. Siobhan Davies |
| Work as a Designer - Musical | |
| 2004 | |
| One Touch of Venus | Opera North |
| Agent - Loesje Sanders | |
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