Jean Kalman

Lighting Designer

Biography

He has worked with directors including Pierre Audi, Robert Carsen and Deborah Warner. Credits include Billy Budd, Dialogues des Carmélites and The Turn of the Screw (ROH), Rushes – Fragments of a Lost Story (The Royal Ballet), Orfeo (ROH/The Roundhouse), Thebans, The Magic Flute, The Death of Klinghoffer, Eugene Onegin and Death in Venice (ENO), Guillaume Tell, Eugene Onegin and Macbeth (Metropolitan Opera), Simon Boccanegra (Japan), OSCAR (installation and performance at Arno Schuitemaker, Amsterdam), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (La Scala), Medée, Tosca, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Salome (Paris), Titon et l’Aurore, Tristan und Isolde, Die Zauberflöte, Lohengrin, Parsifal, St François d’Assise (Amsterdam), La traviata (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées), Otello, Hänsel und Gretel and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Vienna State Opera), Theatre includes Macbeth (RSC), Festen (Almeida, West End), Cabaret (West End), The Year of Magical Thinking, Mother Courage, White Chameleon and Richard III (National Theatre), Blasted (Royal Court). His awards include Olivier Awards (Best Lighting Design) for Richard III and White Chameleon and an Evening Standard Award for Festen.

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