Felice Ross

Lighting designer Felice Ross has designed the lighting for many dance, theatre and opera productions as well as art installations. Her opera work includes the lighting designs for productions of Macbeth, Lulu, Médée, Don Giovanni and Les Contes d’Hoffmann at La Monnaie in Brussels, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Eugene Onegin, Die Gezeichneten, Salome, Tristan und Isolde, Dido and Aeneas / Erwartung, Le Grand Macabre, Tosca and Káťa Kabanová at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, The Rake’s Progress, Peter Eötvös’s Sleepless and Rusalka at the Berlin State Opera, Wozzeck at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Alceste and Poppea e Nerone at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Don Carlos, Parsifal, Iphigénie en Tauride, The Makropulos Case, Bluebeard’s Castle / La Voix humaine, A Quiet Place, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District and Hamlet at the Paris Opéra, From the House of the Dead at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno and The Fiery Angel at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the ballet Ombra at the Opera Vlaanderen and Der Rosenkavalier at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.

Other opera credits include The Medium at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, Così fan tutte at the Poznań Opera, Don Carlo, Eugene Onegin, Der fliegende Holländer, Adès’s Powder Her Face and Penderecki’s Ubu Rex at the National Opera in Warsaw, Salome at the National Theatre in Prague, Manon Lescaut at the Welsh National Opera, The Makropulos Case for Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp, Andrea Chénier at the Washington National Opera, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine at the Holland Festival, Toshiro Mayuzumi’s Kinkakuji at the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo and the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, Pelléas et Mélisande, Evolution and Das Floß der Medusa at the Ruhrtriennale, La traviata at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, Macbeth at the Third World Bunfight in Cape Town, Sleepless, The Makropulos Case and Christian Jost’s Journey of Hope at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and The Bassarids, Elektra, Aida and The Idiot at the Salzburg Festival.

Felice Ross has designed lighting for theatre and dance productions at venues including the Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, the Odéon in Paris, the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Schaubühne in Berlin, the Hanover Schauspiel, the Seo Dance Company in Korea, the Poreia Theatre and the National Theatre in Athens, the Festival d’Avignon, the Salzburg Festival and elsewhere. In 2018 Felice Ross was honoured by Paul McCartney with the title of Companion at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.