Richard Hudson

Designer

Agent

Assistant

Valli Dakshinamurthi

vmurthi@unitedagents.co.uk

Biography

Richard Hudson was born in Zimbabwe in 1954, and was educated in Zimbabwe and England. He trained at Wimbledon School of Art. He is the President of the Society of British Stage Designers, and a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) 1999. In 1988 he won a Laurence Olivier Award for the season at the Old Vic. His set designs for The Lion King have won numerous awards including a Tony in 1998, the Critics Circle Design Award in 2000, and both the Ovations Award and the Hollywood NAACP Award for Best Set Design in 2001. In 2003 he won The Gold Medal for Set Design at the Prague Quadrienale. In 2005 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Surrey, and in 2009 he was made a Companion of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. In 2010 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Credits

Opera

Production	Company	Notes
The Four Seasons 2023	The Royal Danish Opera
La Bayadere 2023	The Royal Danish Opera
La Boheme 2023	Greek National Opera
Gianni Schicchi 2023	Greek National Opera
Un Ballo in Maschera 2021	Teatro Regio Parma
Don Carlo 2019	Greek National Opera
Asters 2018	New National Opera, Japan
Wake 2018	Birmingham Opera Company
Raymonda 2017	Raymonda
Morgen un d Abend 2016	Deutsche Opera Berlin
The Golden Cockeral 2016	ABT / Met Opera
Morgen und Abend 2015	Royal Opera House
Yume 2014	Opera de Reims
La Traviata 2014	Grange Park Opera
Peter Grimes 2014	Opera De Lyon
Das Rhinegold 2013	Teatro Massimo, Palermo
Death in Venice 2013	Opera North
Die Walkure 2013	Teatro Massimo, Palermo
Pecheurs de Perles (costumes) 2012	Opera Comique, Paris
Terre et Cendres (costumes) 2012	Opera de Lyon
La Nuit de Gutenberg (costumes) 2011	Opéra du Rhin, Strasbourg
Die Entfürung aus dem Serail 2011	Opera di Roma
Royal Opera Covent Garden 2010	Royal Opera Covent Garden
Armida 2010	Metropolitan Opera New York
Ruddigore 2010	Opera North
Rigoletto 2009	Vienna Volksoper
Goldberg Variations 2009	Linbury Studio Royal Opera House
La Forza del Destino 2008	La Monnaie, Brussels
Divorzio all’Italiana 2008	Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy
La Forza del Destino 2008	Vienna State Opera
Eine Florentinische Tragodie 2008	Greek National Opera
La Forza del Destino 2008	La Monnaie, Brussels
La Boheme 2007	Greek National Opera
Mavra/Seven Deadly Sins/Gianni Schicchi 2007	Greek National Opera
Fall of the House of Usher/ Jeux/ L’apres-midi d’un Faune 2006	Bregenz Festival
The Makropulos Case 2006	Copenhagen
Twilight of the Gods 2005	English National Opera
Idomeneo 2004	Maggio Musicale Florence
Rhinegold 2004	English National Opera
Siegfried 2004	English National Opera
Valkyrie 2004	English National Opera
Les Vepres Siciliennes 2003	Paris Opera
Benvenuto Cellini 2003	Zurich Opera
Tamerlano 2001	Maggio Musicale Florence
Cunning Little Vixen 2001	Opera North
Khovantschina 2001	Paris Opera
Le Nozze di Figaro 2000	Glyndebourne
Don Giovanni 2000	Glyndebourne
Pique Dame 2000	Lyric Opera Chicago
Peter Grimes 2000	Netherlands Opera
Samson et Dalila 1999	Metropolitan Opera New York
Cosi fan Tutte 1998	Glyndebourne
Guillaume Tell 1998	Vienna State Opera
Ernani 1998	Vienna State Opera
The Merry Widow 1997	Royal Opera
Manon Lescaut 1997	Glyndebourne
I Puritani 1995	Teatro La Fenice Venice
Ermione 1995	Glyndebourne
The Rake’s Progress 1995	Saito Kinen Festival Japan
Eugene Onegin 1994	Glyndebourne
L’Inganno Felice 1994	Rossini Festival Pesaro
The Rake’s Progress 1994	Lyric Opera Chicago
Les Contes d’Hoffmann 1993	Vienna State Opera
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg 1993	Royal Opera
The Force of Destiny 1992	English National Opera
The Queen of Spades 1992	Glyndebourne
Mary Stuart 1991	Scottish Opera
Lucia di Lammermoor 1991	Bavarian State Opera Munich
Figaro’s Wedding 1991	English National Opera
The Vanishing Bridegroom 1990	Scottish Opera
Lucia di Lammermoor 1989	Zurich Opera
Count Ory 1988	Kent Opera
Candide 1988	Scottish Opera/ Old Vic
A Night at the Chinese Opera 1987	Kent Opera
Manon 1987	Royal Northern College of Music
Don Carlos 1987	Royal Exchange Manchester
Mignon 1986	Wexford Festival
Elegy for Young Lovers 1986	QEH London/ Alte Oper Frankfurt
Don Pasquale 1985	Opera Northern Ireland
La Vie Parisienne 1985	Scottish Opera
The Dragon of Wantley 1984	Cambridge Opera Group
Il Matrimonio Segreto 1984	Royal College of Music

Other

Production	Company	Notes
Romeo & Juliet 2020	Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow
Sleeping Beauty 2015	American Ballet Theatre
La Bayadere 2012	Royal Danish Ballet
Le Coq D’or 2012	Royal Danish Ballet
Dumbarton Oaks 2011	American Ballet Theatre
Romeo and Juliet 2011	National Ballet of Canada
The Nutcracker 2010	American Ballet Theatre
Invitus Invitam 2010	Royal Ballet, Covent Garden
Eidolon 2010	Royal Danish Ballet
Rushes 2008	Royal Ballet, Covent Garden
Le Malade Imaginaire 1984	RADA London
The White Goddess 1983	Royal Ballet School
St Anthony Variations 1983	Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet

Theatre

Production	Company	Notes
Leopoldstadt 2022	Broadway, New York
Leopoldstadt 2022	Toronto, Canada
Leopoldstadt 2021	Wyndham’s Theatre
Peter Gynt 2019	National Theatre
The Outsider (L’etranger) 2018	The Print Room
Common 2017	National Theatre
Kafka’s Monkey 2015	Young Vic
Versaille 2014	Donmar Warehouse
Kafka’s Monkey (costume) 2009	Young Vic Theatre
Pictures From An Exhibition 2009	Young Vic Theatre
Le Roi Lion 2007	Mogador Theatre, Paris
Coriolanus 2007	Royal Shakespeare Company
Death in Venice (costumes) 2007	Aldeburgh/Bregenz Festivals
Women Beware Women 2006	Women Beware Women
As You Like It 2005	Young Vic/West End
The Emperor Jones 2005	Gate Theatre
The Skin of our Teeth 2004	Young Vic
The Lion King 2003	Sydney, Australia
The Lion King 2003	Holland
Doctor Faustus 2002	Young Vic
The Lion King 2002	USA Tour
The Lion King 2001	Hamburg
Of Mice and Men 2001	Bregezer Festspiele, Austria
The Lion King 2000	Toronto
The Lion King 2000	Los Angeles
The Lion King 1999	Osaka
The Lion King 1999	London
Tis Pit She’s a Whore 1999	Young Vic
The Lion King 1998	Tokyo
The Lion King 1997	New York
The Ends of the Earth 1996	National Theatre
Blue Remembered Hills 1996	National Theatre
Volpone 1995	National Theatre
Oklahoma! 1994	UK Tour
The Cherry Orchard 1995	Royal Shakespeare Company
Bohemian Lights 1993	Gate Theatre London
Travesties 1993	Royal Shakespeare Company
Hippolytos 1992	Almeida
La Bete 1992	Lyric Theatre London
Twelfth Night 1992	Goodman Theatre Chicago
La Bete 1991	New York
Into the Woods 1990	Phoenix Theatre London
Desire 1990	Almeida
A Clockwork Orange 1990	Royal Shakespeare Company
The Master Builder 1989	Royal Shakespeare Company
Manon 1989	Opera North
The Misanthrope 1989	Bristol Old Vic/ National Theatre
King Lear 1989	Old Vic London
The Tempest 1988	Old Vic London
Bussy D’Ambois 1988	Old Vic London
Too Clever By Half 1988	Old Vic London
One Way Pendulum 1988	Old Vic London
Andromache 1988	Old Vic London
The Emperor 1987	Royal Court London
Loot 1986	Druid Theatre Galway
The Revenger’s Tragedy 1986	RADA London
It’s a Madhouse 1985	Swan Theatre Worcester
The Wreckers 1983	Warwick University
Platee with Yolanda Sonnabend 1982	Batignano Festival/Florence
Euridice with Yolanda Sonnabend 1981	Riverside Studios London

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