During the 2024-25 season for HGO, Peter J. Davison also serves as set designer for Tannhäuser. Previously for the company, he served as set designer for The Sound of Music (2024), this production of West Side Story (2018), Show Boat (2013), Der Rosenkavalier (1995), and Lucia di Lammermoor (1994). His opera credits include 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 (London’s Royal Ballet and Opera); 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, Show Boat, Florencia en el Amazonas, (Chicago); C armen, 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 major musicals and been nominated for Tony, Drama Desk, and Olivier Awards.
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR 1993-94
DER ROSENKAVALIER 1994-95
SHOW BOAT 2012-13
WEST SIDE STORY 2017-18
THE SOUND OF MUSIC 2023-24