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Robert Innes Hopkins

awards and nominations

2007 TMA ‘Designer of the Year’ for Promises Promises at Sheffield Crucible
2007 ‘Opernwelt Set Design of the Year’ for Die Soldaten at Ruhr Triannale
1997 TMA ‘Designer of the Year’ for The Wasp Factory at West Yorkshire Playhouse and My Mother Said for Oxford Stage Company
1996 ‘Critics Circle Designer of the Year’ for The Comedy of Errors at the RSC and The Weavers at the Gate Theatre.

Productions

 

2024

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE

Director: Paul Curran
San Fransisco Opera

LA TRAVIATA

Director: Shawna Lucey
LA Opera 

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

Director: Blanche McIntyre
Royal Shakespeare Company

2023

DALIBOR

Director: David Pountney
National Theatre Brno

THE CHILDREN OF ATATURK

Director: Mehmet Ergen
Zorlu Performing Arts, Istanbul

DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER

Director: Paul Curran
Teatro Comunale di Bologna

ORFEO ED EURIDICE & DIDO AND AENEAS

Director: Daniel Slater
The Grange Festival

2022

LA TRAVIATA

Director: Shawna Lucey
San Francisco Opera

DMITRY

Director: Tim Supple
Marylebone Theatre

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

Director: Blanche McIntyre
Royal Shakespeare Company

TAMERLANO

Director: Daniel Slater
The Grange Festival 

2021

TOSCA

Director: Robert Innes Hopkins
San Francisco Opera

2020

PERICLES

Director: Blanche McIntyre
Royal Shakespeare Company

DIE FLEDERMAUS
 
Director: Shawna Lucey
Opera Theatre of St Louis
 

2019

SECRET CINEMA 'CASINO ROYALE' SHANGHAI 
 
Director: Angus Jackson
Secret Cinema / SMG, Shanghai
 
LINZ KLANGWOLKE 2019 Director: David Pountney

Brucknerhaus, Linz Austria

SECRET CINEMA 'CASINO ROYALE'  Director: Angus Jackson
Secret Cinema, London
 

BELSHAZZAR

Director: Daniel Slater
The Grange Festival

EDMOND DE BERGERAC

Director: Roxana Silbert
Birmingham Rep

2018

RING CYCLE: SIEGFRIED
 

Director: David Pountney
Lyric Opera, Chicago

DON QUIXOTE

Director: Angus Jackson
Garrick Theatre

WAR AND PEACE

Director: David Pountney
Welsh National Opera

TOSCA

Director: Shawna Lucey
San Francisco Opera

 

2017

RING CYCLE: DIE WALKÜRE

Director: David Pountney
Lyric Opera, Chicago
 
LADY IN THE VAN

Director: Jonathan Church
Theatre Royal Bath

CHARODEIKA

Director: David Pountney
Teatro di San Carlo, Naples

DIE WALKURE

Director: David Pountney
Chicago Lyric Opera

JULIUS CAESAR

Director: Angus Jackson
Royal Shakespeare Company

ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA

Director: Iqbal Khan
Royal Shakespeare Company

TITUS ANDRONICUS

Director: Blanche McIntyre
Royal Shakespeare Company

CORIOLANUS

Director: Angus Jackson
Royal Shakespeare Company

 

2016

RING CYCLE: DAS RHEINGOLD

Director: David Pountney
Lyric Opera, Chicago

KENNY MORGAN

Director: Lucy Bailey
Arcola Theatre

NOISES OFF

Director: Blanche McIntyre
Nottingham Playhouse/ Northern Stage/ Nuffield Southampton

DON QUIXOTE

Director: Angus Jackson
RSC, Swan Theatre

IN PARENTHESIS

Director: David Pountney
Welsh National Opera Cardiff and tour

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

Director: Stephen Barlow
Den Jyske Opera

 

2015

THE CRUCIBLE

Director: Tom Morris
Bristol Old Vic

AIDA

Director: Daniel Slater
Opera Holland Park

OPPENHEIMER

Director: Angus Jackson
Royal Shakespeare Company / West End (Vaudeville Theatre)

SAUL AND DAVID

Director: David Pountney
Royal Danish Theatre

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS

Director: Joe Murphy
Chichester Festival Theatre/Fiery Angel

 

2014

SPEED THE PLOW

Director: Lindsay Posner
West End/Playhouse Theatre

NEVILLE’S ISLAND

Director: Angus Jackson
West End/Duke of York’s Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre

SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS

Director: Tom Morris
Bristol Old Vic (Revival)

BARTERED BRIDE

Director: Daniel Slater
UK Tour, previously New Zealand (2012), Valencia, Strasbourg and Opera North.

KAFKA’S DICK

Director: David Grindley
Theatre Royal Bath

TONIGHT AT 8.30

Director: Blanche McIntyre
Nuffield Theatre/ETT
 

THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN

Director: Daniel Slater
Garsington Opera (2014 Season)

OTHER DESERT CITIES

Director: Lindsay Posner
Old Vic

THE BFG

Director: Teresa Ludovico
Birmingham Rep

ARIODANTE

Director: Paul Curran
Royal Academy of Music

 

2013

KING LEAR

Director: Angus Jackson
Chichester Festival Theatre/BAM NYC

NEVILLE’S ISLAND

Director: Angus Jackson
Chichester Festival Theatre

MAOMETTO II

Director: Edward Dick
Garsington Opera (2013 Season)

A DOLL’S HOUSE

Director: Graham McLaren
National Theatre of Scotland

NABUCCO

Director: Daniel Slater
De Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp

 

previous theatre productions

THE LAST SUMMER

Director: Toby Frow
The Gate, Dublin

CHILDREN’S CHILDREN

Director: Jeremy Herrin
Almeida

SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS

Director: Tom Morris
UK tour, previously in the West End and at Bristol Old Vic

BINGO

Director: Angus Jackson
Young Vic, previously Chichester Festival Theatre

CLYBOURNE PARK

Director: Dominic Cooke
West End, previously Royal Court

DUNSINANE

Director: Roxanna Silbert
National Theatre of Scotland, previously RSC/ Hampstead Theatre

GOODNIGHT MR TOM

Director: Angus Jackson
Chichester/UK Tour

WANDERLUST

Director: Simon Godwin
Royal Court Upstairs

TUSK TUSK

Director: Jeremy Herrin
Royal Court Upstairs

WALLENSTEIN

Director: Angus Jackson
Chichester Festival Theatre

MARBLE

Director: Jeremy Herrin
Abbey Theatre Dublin

DALLAS SWEETMAN

Director: Roxanna Silbert
Canterbury Cathedral

TWELTH NIGHT

Director: Ed Dick
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

ROMEO AND JULIET

Director: Tim Sheader
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

THE PRIORY

Director: Jeremy Herrin
Royal Court

OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD

Director: Ed Dick
Liverpool Playhouse

PINOCCHIO

Director: Mark Thompson
Royal Lyceum Edinburgh

THE PAIN AND THE ITCH

Director: Dominic Cooke
Royal Court

THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING

Director: Matthew Dunster
Young Vic

CAROUSEL

Director: Angus Jackson
Chichester Festival Theatre

PROMISES PROMISES

Director: Angus Jackson
Sheffield Crucible

ARTURO UI

Director: Simon McBurney
New York

THE MALCONTENT

Director: Dominic Cooke
RSC, Swan Theatre

THE WASP FACTORY

Director: Malcolm Sutherland
West Yorkshire Playhouse

MY MOTHER SAID

Director: Dominic Cooke
Oxfod Stage Company

THE WEAVERS

Director: Dominic Cooke
Gate Theatre

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

Director: Tim Supple
Royal Shakespeare Company

 

previous opera & dance

BARTERED BRIDE

Director: Daniel Slater
New Zealand (2012), previously Valencia, Strasbourg and Opera North.

LOHENGRIN

Director: Daniel Slater
San Francisco, previously Houston and Geneva

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE

Director: Paul Curran
Teatro La Fenice

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE

Director: Daniel Slater
Oslo

PRINCE IGOR

Director: David Pountney
Zurich and Hamburg

KOMMILITONEN

Director: David Pountney
RAM, Julliard

WOZZECK

Director: Daniel Slater
Santa Fe

PETER GRIMES

Director: Paul Curran
Oslo, previously Washington DC and Santa Fe

PARSIFAL

Director: Nicola Raab
Tallinn

HEART OF DARKNESS

Director: Ed Dick
ROH2

ELIXIR OF LOVE

Director: Daniel Slater
Welsh National Opera and Opera North

PARADISE MOSCOW

Director: David Pountney
Opera North

NORMA

Director: Martin Constantine
Grange Park Opera

XERXES

Director: Daniel Slater
Stockholm

BETROTHAL IN A MONESTARY

Director: Daniel Slater
Valencia, Glyndebourne

DIE SOLDATEN

Director: David Pountney
Lincoln Center Festival, Ruhr Triennale

CARMEN

Director: David Pountney
Bolshoi Moscow

BILLY BUDD

Director: Paul Curran
Santa Fe

RAPE OF LUCRETIA

Director: Ed Dick
Snape Maltings

MANON LESCAUT

Director: Daniel Slater
Oviedo, Oslo, Opera North

RIGOLETTO

Director: Stefano Vizioli
Lyric Opera Chicago

CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN

Director: Daniel Slater
Geneva, San Fransisco, Bregenz

FLYING DUTCHMAN

Director: David Pountney
Welsh National Opera, Zurich

CAV AND PAG

Director: David Pountney
Deutsche Oper Berlin

SIMON BOCCANEGRA

Director: Stefano Vizioli
Santa Fe

CHARODEYKA

Director: David Pountney
Lisbon, St Petersburg

LA BOHEME

Director: Dominic Cooke
Grange Park Opera

RIGOLETTO

Director: James Macdonald
Welsh National Opera

ITALIAN GIRL IN ALGIERS

Director: Ed Hastings
Santa Fe

I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI

Director: Dominic Cooke
Grange Park Opera