Set & Costume Designer

Gary McCann

Tosca, Der Rosenkavalier

Biography

Gary McCann has worked extensively as a set and costume designer for some of the world’s most significant companies. His credits include Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Santa Fe Opera), Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos (Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, and Teatro Massimo, Palermo); Mascagni’s L’Amico Fritz (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino); Britten’s Peter Grimes (Teatro La Fenice), Puccini’s Tosca (Wroclaw Opera); Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier (Garsington Opera, Santa Fe Opera), Beethoven’s Fidelio (Garsington Opera); Weber’s Der Freischütz, Verdi’s Macbeth (Vienna State Opera); Verdi’s La forza del destino, Don Carlos and Simon Boccanegra, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liége); Donizetti’s Anna Bolena (Opéra de Lausanne, Royal Opera House Muscat, ABAO Bilbao Opera); My Fair Lady (Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Palermo); Bizet’s Carmen (Opera Philadelphia/Seattle Opera); Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole, Poulenc’s La Voix humaine, Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel (Nederlandse Reisopera); Handel’s Faramondo (Göttingen, Brisbane Baroque); Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus (Norwegian National Opera); Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel (Santa Fe Opera/Dallas Opera); and Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito (Lausanne, Oviedo, Bilbao); The Girl In The Yellow Dress (Market Theatre Johannesburg, Baxter Theatre Cape Town, Stockholm City Theatre); Britten’s Les Illuminations (Aldeburgh Music); Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman (Ekaterinburg); Three Days in May, Dangerous Corner, The Shawshank Redemption, La Cage aux Folles, The Sound of Music, Saturday Night Fever, Cilla the Musical (Bill Kenwright, UK tours) and Killology (Royal Court). Gary lives in Brighton, Sussex

February 2022