Nigel Lowery
Biography
British director and designer Nigel Lowery makes his debut at the National Theatre with his production of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre.
He graduated from Central St Martin's School of Art and Design in London. After that he worked in stage design – he created e.g. the sets and costumes for Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (1994-1995), for the English National Opera's production of Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert, for the production of Jonathan Harvey's Inquest of Love directed by David Pountney at La Monnaie, Brussels (both 1994) and for Handel's Giulio Cesare at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich (1997).
He first directed opera at the Batignano Festival, followed by Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia at Covent Garden (1996) and Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel for Theater Basel (1997). This was followed by productions of Handel's Rinaldo, Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Rossini's L’italiana in Algeri for the Staatsoper Berlin, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Lortzing's Der Wildschütz for the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Bernstein's Candide and Glass's Akhnaten for the Antwerp Opera, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas for the Saarbrücken Opera, Rameau's Platée for De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam and others.
On many operas he worked closely with choreographer Amir Hosseinpour and conductor René Jacobs.