Christophe Forey

Christophe Forey has worked as a lighting designer on many dance, opera and theatre productions. In the field of opera he has for many years worked closely with the directors Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier on productions that have included Carmen, Fidelio, Orphée et Eurydice, Leonore, La traviata and Mazeppa for the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff and on tour; Hamlet, Der Rosenkavalier, Pelléas et Mélisande, Der Ring des Nibelungen and Don Carlo at the Grand Théâtre de Genève; La Cenerentola, Madama Butterfly, Il turco in Italia, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Hänsel und Gretel and Maria Stuarda at the Royal Opera House in London; Halévy’s Clari, Marc-André Dalbavie’s Gesualdo and Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto, Le Comte Ory and Otello at the Zurich Opera; Falstaff, Jenůfa, Die Sache Makropulos, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro and L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Angers Nantes Opéra; Detlev Glanert’s Solaris at the Bregenz Festival; Giulio Cesare, Norma and Iphigénie en Tauride at the Salzburg Festival; Paisiello’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Theater an der Wien; Giovanna d’Arco at La Scala, Milan; Il trovatore at the Aalto Theatre in Essen; and also The Nose, Die Zauberflöte, L’Amour des trois oranges, Lucie de Lammermoor and Eugene Onegin, which were performed at several opera houses.

The directors and choreographers with whom he has worked also include Günter Krämer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Lucinda Childs (Orfeo ed Euridice, The Miraculous Mandarin, Max Richter’s Songs From Before and a double bill of Le Rossignol and Œdipus rex), Silviu Pucărete (Parsifal for Scottish Opera), Veisturs Kairišs (Götterdämmerung in Riga), Bruno Boëglin (Bernard-Marie Koltès’s Roberto Zucco in Paris and on tour), Jean-Marc Bourg (Emmanuel Darley’s Être humain, Laurent Gaudé’s Cendres sur les mains and Christian Prigent’s Une Phrase pour ma mère), Jean-Claude Berutti (Herb Gardner’s Conversations with My Father at the Théâtre de Liège) and Cédric Dorier (Racine’s La Thébaïde for the Les Célébrants theatre company and Haydn’s Orlando Paladino in Swiss Fribourg and Lausanne).