Lighting Designer

Matt Haskins

Norma

Biography

Matt is a UK-based lighting designer who works internationally on theatre, opera, site-specific, concert, installation and corporate projects. For Irish National Opera, Matt has lit productions of Puccini’s La bohème, Rossini’s La Cenerentola, and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale; Handel’s Tamerlano (London Handel Festival), Søren Nils Eichberg’s Glare, Matt Rogers’s The Virtues of Things, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Coraline, Elspeth Brooke’s The Commission and Francisco Coll’s Café Kafka (Royal Ballet & Opera); Ravi Shankar’s Sukanya (Royal Festival Hall); Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer (Estonian National Opera); Britten’s Turn of the Screw, Verdi’s La traviata, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snow Maiden, Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel (Opera North); Donizetti’s Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda (Welsh National Opera); Verdi’s Macbeth (Grange Festival); Michael Zev Gordon’s Raising Icarus (Barber Opera); Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux (Teatro Real, Madrid/Teatro de la Maestranza, Sevilla); Bernstein’s A Quiet Place (Opera Zuid); Herrmann’s Wuthering Heights (Opéra national de Lorraine); Britten’s Albert Herring (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino); Rossini’s La Cenerentola (Malmö Opera and Teatro Regio di Torino); Britten’s Owen Wingrave, Massenet’s Cendrillon, Poulenc’s Dialogues des carmélites (Royal Northern College of Music); and Britten’s Albert Herring (Royal Academy of Music).

May 2026