ARTIST AVATAR
Original Lighting Designer
Albert Faura
Spain

About

Biography

Albert Faura is the original lighting designer for this production of Cinderella, which HGO also staged in 2007. His lighting designs also have been seen at HGO in The Barber of Seville (2018, 2011) and The Italian Girl in Algiers in (2012). Faura’s recent work includes La Bella Susona at Teatro Maestranza, Così fan tutte at Teatro Calderon, The Saffron Rose and Benamor at Teatro Lirico Nacional de la Zarzuela, La torre de Nadal at Gran Teatre del Liceu, La dama del alba at Opera de Oviedo, and The Pirate at Teatro Real de Madrid. He designed the lighting for The Magic Flute (Barcelona), Turandot (Valencia), Madame Butterfly (Venice), Carmen (Palermo), and Tristan and Isolde (Lyon), and many other productions. As a member of Barcelona’s Els Comediants theater collective, he has worked with such distinguished directors as Núria Espert, Nicolas Joël, Rafael Durán, Sergi Belbel, Alfredo Arias, and Frédérico Alagna. Faura has designed lighting for Alan Ayckbourn’s House and Garden at Teatro Bartrina and Teatro Fortuny; Gani Mirzo’s 1,001 Nights (Syracuse, Perelada, Cordóba); The Magic Flute (Opéra National de Paris, Teatro Real, Ruhr Triennale Festival); Bretón’s La verbena de la Paloma (Granada’s International Festival of Music and Dance, Bilbao’s Teatro Arriaga, Perelada Festival). He has won three Butaca Awards, a Max Award, and two Barcelona Critics’ Awards. 

Repertoire

LA CENERENTOLA (CINDERELLA) 2006-07 

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE 2011-12 (Mainstage and Miller Outdoor Theatre), 2017-18 (Mainstage and Miller Outdoor Theatre) 

THE ITALIAN GIRL IN ALGIERS 2012-13