Lighting Designer

Rick Fisher

Rigoletto

Biography

Originally from Philadelphia, he has been based in London for over 40 years. Opera includes: 27 operas for Santa Fe Opera over 15 seasons; Meyerbeer’s Le Prophet, Strauss’s The Silent Woman (Bard Summerscape, USA); Bizet’s Carmen (Opera North UK); Wasserman’s Man of La Mancha (ENO); Verdi’s La Traviata (Oman); Verdi’s Don Carlos (LA Opera); Sondheim's Sweeney Todd (Houston, San Francisco); Verdi’s Falstaff, Strauss’s Salome (Saito Kinen Festival, Japan); Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince (New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera); Prokofiev’s Fiery Angel, Puccini's Turandot (Bolshoi, Moscow); Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (La Fenice, Venice); Tchaikovsky’s The Tsarina’s Slippers, Berg’s Wozzeck (ROH) and numerous semi-staged operas with Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Theatre work includes: Middle (National Theatre), The Audience (Broadway and West End), Billy Elliot and An Inspector Calls (West End, Broadway and internationally); Jerry Springer The Opera (National Theatre/West End).

Awards include: 1998, 1994 Olivier Award Winner for Best Lighting Design; and two Tony Awards, for An Inspector Calls and Billy Elliot (Broadway). Rick is a Fellow of the Association for Lighting Production and Design.

October 2024