The Tempest
I was commissioned in January 2004 to produce video backdrops for the Royal Opera's production of Thomas Adès' Tempest.


The new opera was a co-production with the Copenhagen Opera House and the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, France and received its world premiere to critical acclaim at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London on 10 February 2004. Other productions followed in Strasbourg and Copenhagen later in 2005 and the opera was given its US premiere staging by the Santa Fe Opera on 29 July 2006.


The Tempest went on to win the prestigious Olivier Award for the Outstanding Achievement in Opera.

Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
In April 2004 I worked on Richard Jones' bleak but compelling drama of brutality, domination and frustration set in a typical "quiet Russian family". 


The production updates the action to the 1950s, with splendid period details in both sets and costumes. The result was explosive, bloody and provocative.
I was commissioned to produce a variety of films to be used on televisions in the set: there was wrestling footage, a cooking program, the ghost sequence and police station 'dance CITV' sequence.


Lady Macbeth went on to win the prestigious Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production. 

Clip from The Tempest (without sound) showing the Sea Sequence.  The video was projected from ceiling above the audience in the Royal Opera House.