LESLIE TRAVERS

He trained at London’s Wimbledon School of Art‚ and is recognised as one of the leading stage designers of his generation. In recognition of his achievements, he was made a Companion of the Liverpool Institute of the Performing Arts in 2022 and was shortlisted (for the third time) for Best Designer at the International Opera Awards. In 2023, he won both the Critics’ Circle Prize and a UK Theatre Award for his work on Orpheus for Opera North. Recent projects include Francesca da Rimini (Franco Abbiati Prize for best set design in Italy) and Manon Lescaut (La Scala‚ Milan), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Leipzig)‚ Elysium (Oslo), Rusalka and Salome (Santa Fe), Le nozze di Figaro (The Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv and Romanian National Opera), I puritani (Liceu, Barcelona)‚ The Haunted Manor (Polish National Opera), Carmen (Welsh National Opera), Don Pasquale and Werther (Prix Claude Rostand, Québec, Nancy, Marseille)‚ Al Wasl (World Expo, Dubai), Der Zigeunerbaron (Geneva), Kát´a Kabanová (Scottish Opera), Simon Boccanegra (Latvian National Opera) and La clemenza di Tito (St Louis). Last year he designed first time sets and costumes for the GNO and Bluebeard’s Castle.