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. Now they're back in Frankfurt, where they staged a La Damoiselle élue / Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher double bill and Manon Lescaut, for this new production of Fortner's Blood Wedding. He recently worked on, amongst others, Shostakovitch's Lady Macbeth von Mzensk at the Liceu in Barcelona, Campras Idoménée at the Opéra de Lille and Staatsoper in Berlin, Rusalka at Bergen National Opera, Carmen and Turandot at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, the world premiere of Mark Grey's Frankenstein and Shostakovitch's The Nose at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, a co-production with the Royal Danish Opera, and Boito's Mefistofele at the Opéra de Lyon, Staatsoper in Stuttgart and Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. Other successful productions 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. Their productions were also seen 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 also designed sets for productions directed by Guy Joosten and Joan Anton Rechi. Alfons Flores began his career in 1978 in Barcelona.