Alfons Flores
Set Designer
© Stela Salinas
The award-winning Spanish set designer Alfons Flores has collaborated with Àlex Ollé and La Fura dels Baus for many years. They worked in Frankfurt for the first time on this La Damoiselle élue / Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher double bill (first seen in 2017) which was followed by Manon Lescaut and they return in the 2024/26 season for a new production of Fortner's Blood Wedding. Recent projects have included Le Retour d'Idoménée (based on Campra's Idoménée) at the Opéra de Lille and Staatsoper in Berlin, Rusalka at the National Opera in Bergen, Carmen and Turandot at the New National Theatre Tokyo, the world premiere of Mark Grey's Frankenstein at the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussel and Mefistofele at the Opera de Lyon. Other successful productions have included The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Le Grand Macabre, Enescu's Oedipe, Gounod's Faust, Un ballo in maschera, Pelléas et Mélisande, La Bohème, Norma and Madama Butterfly, in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Dresden, London, Madrid, Oslo, Paris, Rome, Sydney, Buenos Aires and other places. They also worked at leading festivals including the Edinburgh International Festival and the Festwochen in Vienna. Alfons Flores worked with the director Calixto Bieito from 1998 – 2010, and created productions of Macbeth and Massenet's Manon for Oper Frankfurt. He has also designed sets for productions directed by Guy Joosten and Joan Anton Rechi. Alfons Flores began his career in 1978 in Barcelona.