James Farncombe

A British lighting designer, his previous opera credits include Innocence (also Helsinki, Aix-en-Provence Festival, San Francisco Opera), Jenůfa (also Chicago Lyric Opera), Lessons in Love and Violence (also Liceu, Barcelona, Dutch National Opera, Opéra de Lyon, Hamburg State Opera) and Theodora (Royal Opera House), Lucia di Lammermoor (Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Opera), Le Vin herbé (Berlin Staatsoper), Pelléas et Mélisande, Alcina (Bolshoi Theatre), Tristan und Isolde, Ariadne auf Naxos and Trauernacht (Aix-en-Provence Festival), La traviata (Paris Opera, Vienna State Opera), Der Zwerg (DNO), Francesca da Rimini (Opéra National du Rhin), Miranda (Opéra Comique), The Barber of Seville (Glyndebourne Festival), The Marriage of Figaro (Opera North), Pelléas et Mélisande (Den Norske Opera), Der fliegende Holländer and Ariodante (Scottish Opera), and Benjamin, dernière nuit (Opéra de Lyon). Recent theatre credits include The Other Place and Phaedra (National Theatre), Vanya (Duke of Yorks), Yerma (Young Vic), Richard II (Almeida) and Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court). Engagements for 2025/26 include Rigoletto, Giustino and The Makropulos Case for The Royal Opera.