Simon Corder was honoured as a Knight Of Illumination in 2017.
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The Queen of Spades – London
Opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, presented by Opera Holland Park in the summer of 2016.
“The nightmarish hallucinatory quality of the music in the final scenes is reflected in lighting designer Simon Corder’s shifting play of light and shadows.” – Clare Colvin, Daily Express, 7 August 2016
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Opera by Bohuslav Martinů, written in 1958 – presented in a Martinů double bill with Alexandre Bis at the Silk Street Theatre at the Barbican for Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Continue readingTosca – Xi’an
Opera by Giacomo Puccini. The first staged opera at Xi’an Concert Hall. A single performance was given on 18th December 2015.
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Opera by Alessandro Stradella. The first opera production in the new Milton Court Theatre at The Barbican, in a baroque double bill with The Cooper, for Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Continue readingThe Cooper – London
Opera by Thomas Arne. The first opera production in the new Milton Court Theatre at The Barbican, in a baroque double bill with San Giovanni Battista, for Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Continue readingLa Cenerentola – Athens, Trieste
Opera by Gioachino Rossini. Presented by Greek National Opera, at the Olympia Theatre, October 2013. The production was revived at Teatro Verdi, Trieste, in April 2016 – it returned to The Olympia Theatre in April 2024
Continue readingL’isola disabitata – London, Hobart
Opera by Joseph Haydn. Presented at the inaugural Hobart Baroque festival at Theatre Royal Hobart, the oldest working theatre in the Southern Hemisphere in 2013. A revival of the 2010 production in the Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London.
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