
James Farncombe
Lighting Designer
Currently for ENO: The Dead City
Career Highlights
Previous opera credits include: Jenůfa, Lessons in Love and Violence (also Gran Teatredel Liceu, Dutch National Opera, Opéra de Lyon, Hamburg State Opera), Theodora (ROH); Luciadi Lammermoor (Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Opera); Le Vin Herbé (Berliner Staatsoper); Innocence (also Helsinki and ROH), Pelléas et Mélisande, Alcina (also Bolshoi Theatre of Russia); Tristan und Isolde, Ariadne auf Naxos, Trauernacht (Aix-en-Provence); La traviata (Opéra de Paris, Palais de Garnier, Wiener Staatsoper); Street Scene (Teatro Real,Madrid); Jenůfa (also Palau de les Arts, Valencia), Der Zwerg, (Dutch National Opera); Francesca da Rimini (Opéra National du Rhin); Miranda (Opéra Comique); The Barber of Seville (Glyndebourne); The Marriage of Figaro (Opera North); Pelléas et Mélisande (Den NorskeOpera); Der fliegende Holländer, Ariodante (ScottishOpera); Benjamin, dernière nuit (Opéra de Lyon).
Theatre includes: Phaedra,People, Places and Things, Edward II (RNT); John Gabriel Borkman (Bridge); Yerma (also Armory NYC, Schaubühne Berlin), Ibsen House (International Theatre Amsterdam); Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic).
Last updated: 10th March 2023