MATTHEW RICHARDSON
lighting designer
GREEK composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage | Scottish Opera & Opera Ventures | Lighting by Matthew Richardson | Directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins | Set by Johannes Schütz | Costume by Alex Lowde | Movement by Jenny Ogilvie | Photo by Joe Hill-Gibbins
Matthew trained in New Zealand. He has designed lighting for many of the major opera and theatre companies across the world.
Theatre lighting designs include Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Park, The Cordelia Dream for Royal Shakespeare Company; Six Characters Looking for an Author, Doctor Faustus, Hobson’s Choice for Young Vic Theatre; #aiww for Hampstead Theatre; Tales of Ballycumber, Only an Apple for Abbey Theatre Dublin; Venice Preserv’d, Hedda Gabler, Creditors for Almeida Theatre; The Birthday Party, Nine Plays and a Recipe for Citizen’s Theatre Glasgow. Other designs include productions for the National, Royal Court, and Old Vic theatres.
Recent designs include King Lear for Det Ferösche Compagnie; Alcina for Opera North and Seattle Opera; RhineGold for Birmingham Opera Company; The Marriage of Figaro for English National Opera; Greek for the Edinburgh Festival / Scottish Opera / BAM New York; Tamerlano and Alcina for La Monnaie Brussels.
Opera lighting designs include Pelleas and Melisande, From the House of the Dead, Fidelio, Madam Butterfly for English National Opera; Falstaff, Tamerlano, Cherubin for Royal Opera House; Lulu, Eugene Onegin, Queen of Spades for Glyndebourne Festival; Otello, Macbeth for La Scala Milan; Moses and Aron, A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Metropolitan Opera New York; Don Carlos, Juliette, Peter Grimes, Parsifal, L’Enfant et les Sortilèges for Paris Opera; War And Peace for Mariinsky Theatre St.Petersburg; Les Troyens for Bayerische Staatsoper Munich; Jenufa, The Cunning Little Vixen, Mefistofele for Dutch National Opera; Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny for Maggio Musicale Festival Florence; Moise et Pharaon, L’Inganno Felice for Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro; Partenope for Teater an der Wien Vienna; Rigoletto for Teatro Real Madrid and Liceu Opera Barcelona.