Gideon Davey

The British set and costume designer Gideon Davey was born in Bristol. In 2015 he received the Austrian Music Theatre Prize in the category ‘best designer’ for the production of Platée at the Theater an der Wien, and in 2005 he was named costume designer of the year by the magazine Opernwelt for Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria at the Bavarian State Opera.

His recent design credits include Peter Grimes and Giulio Cesare at La Scala, Milan; Il barbiere di Siviglia, Into the Woods and Orlando in Halle; Paderewski’s Manru in Halle and Nancy; Roberto Devereux, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Arabella, Hänsel und Gretel and Pierangelo Valtinoni’s Der Zauberer von Oz for the Zurich Opera House; Le nozze di Figaro in Essen; Agrippina and Tancredi at the Theater an der Wien; The Queen of Spades at the English National Opera; Cesti’s L’Orontea and Chabrier’s L’Étoile in Frankfurt; Alcina at the Teatro Real in Madrid and in Bordeaux; Platée at the Theater an der Wien and the Opéra Comique in Paris; The Cunning Little Vixen in Turin, Lille and Strasbourg; Lully’s Armide at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris; Rinaldo at the Glyndebourne Festival; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam; Radamisto at the Santa Fe Opera and the English National Opera; The Cunning Little Vixen for Grange Park Opera; Die Fledermaus for the Korea National Opera; and Roméo et Juliette and Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bavarian State Opera.

Gideon Davey’s recent work as a set designer also includes productions of L’incoronazione di Poppea in Strasbourg, La Juive in Geneva, the ballet Peer Gynt in Halle, Madama Butterfly and Don Carlo in Graz, Hippolyte et Aricie and Idomeneo in Zurich and Les Contes d’Hoffmann in Karlsruhe.

He has also designed costumes for Carmen at the Opéra Comique and in Zurich; Der Rosenkavalier at the Prague National Theatre; Dialogues des Carmélites in Zurich; Lohengrin and Owen Wingrave at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo in Nancy and Versailles; Marius Felix Lange’s Das Gespenst von Canterville at the Komische Oper Berlin; Luisa Miller in Hamburg; Charpentier’s David et Jonathas at the Aix-en-Provence and Edinburgh Festivals, the Opéra Comique and the Brooklyn Academy of Music; and Frank Schwemmer’s Robin Hood in Berlin, Oslo and Zurich.