Damien Cooper

Damien Cooper is lighting designer for this fall’s production of Britten’s Peter Grimes—his lighting designs for that opera have been seen at West Australian Opera and the Perth International Arts Festival. Mr. Cooper made his HGO design debut with Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2009—that year he also designed lighting for HGO’s critically-acclaimed premiere production Chorus! His lighting designs for A Midsummer Night’s Dream were seen last season at Canadian Opera Company—the production will be presented by Lyric Opera of Chicago later this season. Mr. Cooper’s designs for Verdi’s opera Aida will be seen at Opera Queensland in Brisbane this fall. His other operatic credits include Handel’s Alcina, Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Britten’s Death in Venice at Opera Australia; Lens’s Flamma Flamma for South Australia Opera at the Adelaide Festival; and Meij’s The Lord Of The Rings Symphony for Sydney Opera House. He has designed lighting for numerous productions for Belvoir Street Theatre’s Company B including Gow’s Toy Symphony, Bennetto’s Keating!, Ionesco’s The Chairs, and Nigel Jamieson’s In Our Name. He has also lit numerous productions at Sydney Dance Company, Sydney Theater Company, Malthouse Theatre, and Kookaburra Theatre Company, and designed lighting for Universal Playground at the 2004 Adelaide Festival and Swan Lake at Australian Ballet.