Antony McDonald      
Designer

 

 

 

 

Cinderalla

Nutcracker

The Sleeping Beauty

Fearful Symmetries

Pennies from Heaven

 

Royal Designer for Industry.

Part of the British Team of Designers who won the Golden Triga at the 2003  Prague Quadrenale  for Un Ballo in Maschera, Bregenz Festival, and in 1991 for the 1989 Royal Shakespeare Production of Hamlet.

Previously for Scottish Ballet: Cinderella, The Nutcracker and Hidden Variables, and for 2007 Fearful Symmetries,  all with Ashley Page.

Previous work with Ashley Page and the Royal Ballet include, Cheating Lying Stealing,Now Langorous Now Wild and Ebony Concerto.

As Director/Designer Antony has just opened Manon by Massenet for the Nationale Reisopera, Holland, for whom he previously created King Priam. From 2009 -2012 he will work on The Ring Cycle for the NRO. For Scottish Opera Antony Directed/Designed The Knot Garden, Aida, Samson and Dalilah, and Param Vir’s Broken Strings and Snatched by the Gods, 2004, and Rusalka, 2008, both for Grange Park Opera.

Current and Recent designs include: Eugene Onegin, The Royal Opera House  and Helsinki, Dir. Steven Pimlot; Cunning Little Vixen, Netherlands Opera with Dir. Richard Jones; The Magic Flute, Hyogo, Japan, with Dir. Emmanuelle Bastet; Un Ballo in Maschera, Amsterdam, and Billy Budd, Frankfurt, both with Richard Jones.

 Previous work includes: Pelleas et Melisande , Opera North, English National Opera, Munich and Antwerp, Dir Richard Jones,;  Manon Lescaut, Wiener Staatsoper 2005, Dir. Robert Carson;  The Merry Widow and A MidsummerNight’s Dream, Metropolitan Opera New York, One Touch of Venus, Opera North, all with Dir. Tim Albery.

Other recent designs for dance include A Tragedy of Fashion for Rambert Dance in 2004, Chor. Ian Spink and Of Oil and Water, Siobhan Davies.