John Bishop
Lighting Designer
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The award winning British lighting designer John Bishop has lit around 200 productions of plays, opera and ballet all over the world. Productions with Keith Warner have included Jenůfa at Den Norske Opera Oslo, Elektra at San Francisco Opera, the National Theatre in Prague and Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Der Besuch der alten Dame am Theater / A visit by an Old Lady at the Theatre an der Wien, Doktor Faust and The Great Gatsby at the Semperoper in Dresden, Tannhäuser and Le roi Arthus at the Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg, Le nozze di Figaro at the Teatre Wielki in Warsaw, Sondheim's Passion at the Festival Cantiere Internatzionale d'Arte in Montepulciano and Tristan und Isolde at the National Theatre in Prague. This season they stage a new Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Vienna State Opera and a Weill / Orff The Tsar has his Photograph Taken / The Clever Woman double bill at Oper Frankfurt. His many productions have included Der Ring des Nibelungen and Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying Dutchman at the Norske Opera Oslo, Peter Grimes and Le Revenant in Madrid, Don Giovanni in São Paulo, Demon Juice at the ROH Covent Garden in London, Ernani at English National Opera, La traviata and West Side Story at Welsh National Opera, Albert Herring at Opera North in Leeds and in Tallin, The Woman in Black in Dubai and many productions at Opera Zuid in Maastricht, the Buxton Opera Festival and Kiev Ballet. He recently worked on Il tabarro / Pagliacci at the Seoul Arts Center, Tosca at the Nederlandse Reisopera, L’elisir d’amore in Aarhus and world premieres of Hans Gefor's Notorious at Göteborg Opera and John Metcalf's Under Milk Wood at the Taliesin Theatre in Swansea.