Set Designer

Jamie Vartan

Rigoletto

Biography

Designs for opera include Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s The First Child, The Second Violinist and The Last Hotel (Landmark Productions/Irish National Opera); Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (INO) and Rossini’s William Tell (INO and Nouvel Opéra Fribourg); Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (Wide Open Opera); Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades (La Scala, Milan); Verdi’s La traviata (Malmö); Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Opéra national du Rhin); Anthony Bolton’s The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko, Puccini’s La bohème (Grange Park Opera); Bizet’s Carmen (Lisbon, Turin & Cagliari); Verdi's Aida ( Cagliari ) ; Ariadne auf Naxos (Salzburg); Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking (Oldenburg); Delius’s A Village Romeo and Juliet (Cagliari & Wexford Festival Opera, winner Best Set Design, Irish Times Theatre Awards); Puccini’s Manon Lescaut (Bilbao and Valencia); Verdi’s Falstaff (Grange Park Opera, Oman & Parma) ; Paul Abraham's Die Blume von Hawaii ( Magdeburg ).

Designs for theatre include Krapp's Last Tape ( Landmark Productions & Project Arts Centre), Audrey or Sorrow ( Abbey Theatre ), Medicine, Woyzeck in Winter, Arlington, Ballyturk and Misterman, winner Best Set Design, Irish Times Theatre Awards (Landmark Productions/Galway International Arts Festival); Happy Days (Olympia/Landmark Productions); Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Complicité/Wayward Productions/Landmark Productions/Galway International Arts Festival); Bondagers (Edinburgh Lyceum); Ravens: Spassky v Fischer (Hampstead Theatre); Knives in Hens (Perth); Have Your Circumstances Changed? (Artangel) and The Lost Child Trilogy (David Glass Ensemble). Film design includes The Last Hotel (Sky Arts).

October 2024