Albert Faura is the original lighting designer for HGO’s 2025-26 production of The Barber of Seville, the same production the company presented in 2018 and 2011. Other lighting designs have been seen at HGO in Cinderella (2024, 2007) and The Italian Girl in Algiers in (2012). Elsewhere during the 2025-26 season, Faura serves as the lighting designer for Salome at Teatro Colón; The Barber of Seville with Canadian Opera Company; Marina at Teatro La Maestranza, and Pepita Jiménez at Teatro La Zarzuela. His other work includes Otello by Ignacio García, at the Opera of Bilbao, 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); Tristan and Isolde (Lyon); and many other productions. As a member of Barcelona’s 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.
CINDERELLA 2006-07, 2024-25
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE 2011-12, 2017-18
ITALIAN GIRL IN ALGIERS 2012-13