Gary McCann
Designer
Gary’s work as a set and costume designer for opera, musicals and theatre takes him all over the globe; creating new productions with some of the world’s most significant companies.
Some of his recent credits include: Peter Grimes (La Fenice, Venice), Eugene Onegin (Santa Fe Opera), Ariadne auf Naxos (Bologna, Venice, Palermo), Amico Fritz (Florence), La Clemenza di Tito (Opera de Lausanne, Bilbao, Oviedo), Tosca (Wroclaw, Dublin), Der Rosenkavalier (Garsington, Santa Fe Opera), Der Freischütz, Macbeth (Vienna State Opera); La Forza del Destino, Don Carlos (Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liége); Anna Bolena (Opéra de Lausanne, Royal Opera Muscat, Bilbao); My Fair Lady (Palermo, Naples); Carmen (Opera Philadelphia/ Seattle Opera); Madama Butterfly, The Bartered Bride, The Barber of Seville, Ariadne auf Naxos (Nederlandse Reisopera); Faramondo (Brisbane Baroque); The Girl In The Yellow Dress (Market Theatre Johannesburg, Baxter Theatre Cape Town, Stadtheater Stockholm); Les Illuminations (Aldeburgh Music); 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); Killology (Royal Court); The Pitmen Painters (National Theatre, Friedman Theatre Broadway, Volkstheater Vienna, UK tour and Duchess Theatre West End); Die Fledermaus (Norwegian National Opera); The Golden Cockerel (Santa Fe Opera/ Dallas Opera).
His work has been exhibited at the V&A museum in London three times as part of the Collaborators, transformation/Revelation and Make/Space exhibitions.