Farncombe, James

(Shropshire, UK)

2023–24 Season: Lighting Designer, Kaija Saariaho's Innocence

Recent and Upcoming: Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence (Helsinki’s Finnish National Opera, London’s Royal Opera Covent Garden); Jenůfa (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Valencia’s Palau de les Arts); George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence (Lyon Opera. Hamburg State Opera, Amsterdam’s Dutch National Opera); Handel’s Theodora (London); Lucia di Lammermoor (Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera); Pelléas et Mélisande; Handel’s Alcina (Bolshoi Theatre); Tristan und Isolde (Luxembourg’s Théâtres de la Ville); Ariadne auf Naxos; La Traviata (Paris Opera, Vienna State Opera); Kurt Weill’s Street Scene (Madrid’s Teatro Real); Der Zwerg (Amsterdam); Francesca da Rimini (Rhin Opera); Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Glyndebourne); Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera North); Carmen; Jeanine Tesori’s Blue (English National Opera); Die Tote Stadt (English National Opera)