Lighting Designer
Jake Wiltshire
L’OlimpiadeBiography
Jake designs extensively both in the UK and Worldwide. His work has been seen with major opera companies and festivals inc WNO, Garsington Opera and St. Galler Festspiele, as well as nearly all of the UK’s top music conservatoires. Internationally, he’s worked throughout Europe, North America, and Asia in a variety of venues from traditional proscenium arch theatres to unique site specific spaces. In 2009 he was made an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (HonARAM) and in 2023 he was nominated for a Canadian Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding lighting design.
Recent credits include: Andrea Chenier for St. Galler Festspiele, Switzerland; Don Giovanni for Kilden Opera, Norway. The Magic Flute and Don Pasquale for Welsh National Opera; Blue Beards Castle for Theatre of Sound (Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Award) London, Atlanta and Toronto; Amadigi and Le Comte Ory for Garsington Opera; Peter Pan for Haydn Fondazione, Italy; Vixen for Silent Opera in association with ENO, (London, Helsinki, Trento, Hong Kong and Beijing). Jake has also lit multiple productions for Buxton International Opera Festival, Longborough Festival Opera and Opera Holland Park.
January 2024.