Michael Yeargan, set and costume designer

Verdi's Rigoletto

Previous Engagements at HGO:

• Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci (2008)
  
• Berlioz's Beatrice and Benedict (2008)
• Floyd's Cold Sassy Tree (2000)
• Puccini's Madama Butterfly (1998)
• Verdi's Attila (1995)
• Verdi's Rigoletto (1994)
  

Recent Engagements:

• Wagner's Ring Cycle, Washington National Opera and San Francisco Opera
• Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire and Heggie's Dead Man Walking, San Franciso Opera
• Harbison's The Great Gatsby, Metropolitan Opera
• Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Edward Albee's Seascape, Clifford Odets's Awake and Sing, and South Pacific, Lincoln Center Theater

Awards/Accolades/Recordings:

• Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Henry Hewes Award for designs for Lucus/Guettel's musical The Light in the Piazza
•  Drama Desk Award and second Tony nomination for Slifford Odets's Awake and Sing

Did you know?

• Mr. Yergan currently serves as Professor of Stage Design at the Yale School of Drama
• His current projects include Wagner’s Ring cycle for Washington National Opera and San Francisco Opera
  
• He has designed for Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Glimmerglass Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Florida Grand Opera, as well as for regional theaters in America, London's West End, Broadway and off-Broadway.