Bruno Poet
Bruno Poet is a British lighting designer who works for theater , opera and concert stages .
life and work
Poet has worked on the UK's premier spoken theater stages including the Royal Shakespeare Company , the National Theater and the Old Vic Theater . His work has received several awards. In the opera he works regularly with the directors Daniel Slater , Thaddeus Strassberger and Olivia Fuchs . For several years he has worked regularly at the opera houses of Garsington , Leeds, Copenhagen and Oslo, but also has engagements at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, at the Salzburg Festival and at the Theater an der Wien , as well as at numerous other opera stages in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Bruno Poet created the lighting design for the Jónsi World Tour of the Icelandic guitarist and singer Jón Þór Birgisson in 2010 and for a tour of Jónsi's band Sigur Rós in the summer of 2012 .
Major opera productions
- 2008 Partenope , Royal Copenhagen Opera House
- 2008 A Florentine Tragedy and Gianni Schicchi , Athens
- 2009 I puritani , De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, then in Athens and Genève
- 2009 Il trovatore , Las Palmas, then in Palermo and Bologna
- 2009 Peter Grimes , Grand Théâtre de Genève
- 2009 Al gran sole carico d'amore , Salzburg Festival , then State Opera Unter den Linden Berlin
- 2009 L'arbore di Diana , Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, then Madrid and Montpellier
- 2010 Rusalka , Leeds
- 2010 Le nozze di Figaro , Oslo Opera House
- 2010 The portrait , Bregenz Festival , then in Kaiserslautern
- 2010 Macbeth , Auckland
- 2011 Z Mrtvého Domu , Leeds
- 2011 Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci , Copenhagen and Oslo
- 2012 Věc Makropulos , Leeds
- 2012 I due Foscari , Los Angeles Opera , then Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía Valencia, Theater an der Wien and Royal Opera House Covent Garden London
- 2013 A Midsummer Night's Dream , Scottish Opera Glasgow
- 2013 Béatrice et Bénédict , Theater an der Wien
Awards
- 2007 Green Room Award for Rusalka at the Sydney Opera House
- 2011 Knight of Illumination Award for Frankenstein at the National Theater London
- 2012 Olivier Award for Best Light Design, also for Frankenstein
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Poet, Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British lighting designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |