ARTIST AVATAR
Set Designer
Peter J. Davison
United States

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Biography

Previously for HGO, Peter J. Davison served as set designer for West Side Story (2018), Show Boat (2013), Der Rosenkavalier (1995), and Lucia di Lammermoor (1994). His opera credits include Rebecca, The Marriage of Figaro (Vienna); Die Gezeichneten, Falstaff, and Die Schweigsame Frau (Zurich); Capriccio (Berlin and Torino); Der Rosenkavalier, Carmen, and Mary Stuart (English National Opera); Anna Bolena (Bavarian State Opera); Katya Kabanova (New Zealand); Mitridate Re Di Ponto (Salzburg); Manon Lescaut (Australia); The Rake’s Progress, The Marriage of Figaro, and Cyrano de Bergerac (Metropolitan Opera); The Queen of Spades (Royal Opera House); Guillaume Tell (Opera Bastille); Fidelio, Die Walküre, Porgy and Bess, Salome, La forza del destino, La traviata (Washington); La bohème (Royal Albert Hall), La Rondine (La Fenice); Cyrano de Bergerac (La Scala); Porgy and Bess (Chicago and San Francisco); Carmen, The Tales of Hoffman (Beijing); Heart of a Soldier (San Francisco Opera); La traviata (Bolshoi Theatre); Two Women (San Francisco, Cagliari, Sardinia), Carmen (Salzburg), Porgy and Bess (Glimmerglass), and Norma (Santiago Chile). He has created designs for musicals including Boy from Oz (Sydney), Jesus Christ Superstar (UK/USA Tour, Broadway), Whistle Down the Wind (West End), Show Boat (Royal Albert Hall), Rebecca (Vienna, St Gallen and Stuttgart), Marie Antoinette (Bremen), Spiral (China), Show Boat (Lyric Opera Chicago, Washington National Opera, and Dallas), Der Besuch der Alten Dame (Austria), Butterfly Princess (China), Rebecca, Artus, Don Camillo and Peppone, Matterhorn (St Gallen), West Side Story (Glimmerglass, Chicago, Kansas, Atlanta), and The Sound of Music (Glimmerglass). He has been nominated for Tony, Drama Desk, and Olivier Awards.

Repertoire

Set Designer:

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR 1993-94

DER ROSENKAVALIER 1994-95

SHOW BOAT 2012-13

WEST SIDE STORY 2017-18