Antony McDonald
Director & Designer
Awards
2023 - Olivier Award for Best New Opera for Alcina (Royal Opera House), designed by Antony
2020 - South Bank Sky Arts Award - The Royal Opera House won the Opera trophy for Katya Kabanova
2019 - Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production for Katya Kabanova at The Royal Opera House
2014 - Golden Mask for best costume design in a musical production (Russia) for L'enfant et les sortilèges at the Bolshoi Moscow
2013 - Winner of the Set Design Award, International Opera Awards
2013 - Winner of the Irish Times Best Costume design for Gerald Barry's opera The Importance of Being Earnest
2003 - Part of British Team of Designers who won the Golden Triga at the Prague Quadrenale for Un Ballo in Maschera, Bregenz Festival, and in 1991 for the 1989 Royal Shakespeare Production of Hamlet
Nominations
2023 - Olivier Award Nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, for his design for Alcina (Royal Opera House)
2022 - UK Theatre Awards, Best Design Award for Into The Woods (Theatre Royal Bath - with Jon Bausor and Will Duke)
2022 - International Opera Awards: Madama Butterfly at Bregenz Festival shortlisted in the New Production category
Antony is a multi-award winning Designer and Director working internationally across theatre, opera and dance.
Antony is a Royal Designer for Industry.
“Alice’s Adventures Under Ground - The Royal Opera House
The hero of this production is the director and designer, Antony McDonald. He has filled the stage with colour, action and theatrical wizardry.”
“Katya Kabanova - The Royal Opera House
Antony McDonald’s sparse sets are a claustrophobic state of mind, too: Katya is literally boxed in, while the great river lies beyond, in the pit and the stalls, fishermen casting their reels and taunting the girl with their catch... ”
“Ariadne auf Naxos - Opera Holland Park
...along with everything else in this stylish, beautifully sung and finely acted production, has an irresistible logic, carrying even the most difficult aspects of a dramatically compromised but always ravishing-to-hear operatic hybrid. There’s probably never going to be a perfectly-cast Ariadne in the opera house, but this comes closer than any I’ve ever seen live... ”
Gallery
2024
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Simon Boccanegra | Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Dir. Michele Mariotti |
| The Rake's Progress | The Grange Festival, Dir. & Des. Antony McDonald, Movement Dir. Lucy Burge |
2023
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Raymonda | Finnish National Opera & Ballet,Dir & Chor. Tamara Rojo, Des. Antony McDonald |
| Madama Butterfly | Bregenz Festival, Dir. Andreas Homoki, Set Des. Michael Levine, Costume Des. Antony McDonald, Choreography Lucy Burge |
| Phaedra/Minotaur | Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Dir. Deborah Warner, Choreographer Kim Brandstrup, Des. Antony McDonald |
2022
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Alcina | The Royal Opera House, Dir. Richard Jones, Set & Costume Des. Antony McDonald, Ligthing Des. Lucy Carter |
| Madama Butterfly | Bregenz Festival, Dir. Andreas Homoki, Set Des. Michael Levine, Costume Des. Antony McDonald, Choreography Lucy Burge |
| Into The Woods | Theatre Royal Bath, Co-Dirs. Terry Gilliam & Leah Hausman, Costume Des. Antony McDonald |
| Raymonda | English National Ballet, Dir & Chor. Tamara Rojo, Des. Antony McDonald |
| Phaedra & Minotaur | Theatre Royal Bath, Dir. Deborah Warner, Choreographer Kim Brandstrup, Des. Antony McDonald |
2021
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Gianni Schicchi | Canadian Opera Company, Dir. Amy Lane |
| Alice's Adventures Under Ground (Revival) | Irish National Opera, Dir/Des. Antony McDonald, Lighting Des. Fabiana Piccioli, Movement Dir. Lucy Burge |
2020
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Alice's Adventures Under Ground | The Royal Opera House, Dir/Des. Antony McDonald, Assistant Dir. Amy Lane, Movement Dir. Lucy Burge |
| 4/4 Knoxville: Summer of 1915 | The Royal Opera House, Dir. & Des. Anthony McDonald |
2019
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Katya Kabanova | The Royal Opera House, Dir. Richard Jones, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter |
| Werther | Bergen National Opera, Dir/Des. Antony McDonald, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter, Movement Dir. Lucy Burge |
| On The Town | Hyogo Performing Arts Centre (Japan), Dir/Des. Antony McDonald, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter, Chor. Ashley Page, Movement Dir. Lucy Burge |
| Hansel and Gretel | San Francisco Opera, Dir/Des. Antony McDonald, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter, Movement Dir. Lucy Burge |
| Judgment Day | The Armory, Dir. Richard Jones, Costume Des. Antony McDonald |
2018
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Ariadne auf Naxos | Scottish Opera & Opera Holland Park, Dir/Des. Antony McDonald, Chor. Lucy Burge |
| Powder Her Face | Irish National Opera, Dir/Des. Antony McDonald, Chor. Lucy Burge |
| La finta giardiniera | Teatro Alla Scala (Italy), Dir. Frederic Wake-Walker, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter |
| Hansel and Gretel | The Royal Opera House, Dir/Des. Antony McDonald, Assistant Dir. Amy Lane, Chor. Lucy Burge, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter |
2017
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Powder Her Face | The Lyric (Belfast) |
| Lohengrin | Greek National Opera, Dir/Des. Antony McDonald, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter, Chor. Lucy Burge |
| Die Gezeichneten by Franz Schreker | Opera St Gallen (Switzerland), Dir/Des. Antony McDonald |
2016
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Midsummer Night's Dream | Hyogo Performing Arts Centre (Japan), Chor. Lucy Burge |
| Rusalka (revival) | Scottish Opera, Dir/Des. Antony McDonald, Associate Costume Des. Gabrielle Dalton, Chor. Lucy Burge |
2015
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Tristan und Isolde | Opera National du Rhin |
| Fiddler on the Roof | Performed at the BBC Promenade Concerts, Royal Albert Hall & Grange Park Opera, Dir/Set Des. Antony McDonald, Costume Des. Gabrielle Dalton, Chor. Lucy Burge, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter |
2014
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Queen of Spades | Grange Park Opera, Dir/Des. Antony McDonald |
| Lohengrin | Polish National Opera, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter |
| La finta giardiniera | Glyndebourne (UK), Lighting Des. Lucy Carter |
2013
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Northern Ireland Opera |
| L'enfant et les sortilèges (Revival) | Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow) |
| Lohengrin | Welsh National Opera co-prod. with Polish National Opera, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter |