Bertrand Couderc

Bertrand Couderc has worked as a lighting designer for companies including the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo. He created the lighting design for several of Patrice Chéreau’s productions, including Così fan tutte at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the Paris Opéra, Koltès’s Die Nacht kurz vor den Wäldern, Tristan und Isolde under Daniel Barenboim at La Scala, Milan, and Janáček’s From the House of the Dead under Pierre Boulez at the Theater an der Wien, the Paris Opéra and on tour.

He also created the lighting design for Luc Bondy’s last two productions: Dalbavie’s Charlotte Salomon at the 2014 Salzburg Festival and Chekhov’s Ivanov at the Odéon — Théâtre de l’Europe in Paris in 2015.

His recent work has included Faust at the Opéra Comique in Paris, La Cenerentola at the Paris Opéra, Anna Bolena at La Scala, the re-creation of Rameau and Voltaire’s Samson in Claus Guth’s production at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2024 and Dalbavie’s Le Soulier de satin at the Festival d’Avignon 2025.

Since 2022 Bertrand Couderc has worked regularly with Ted Huffman, with whom he has collaborated on productions of L’incoronazione di Poppea, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, Street Scene, We Are the Lucky Ones and, most recently, Billy Budd.

He has a close partnership with Raphaël Pichon and ensemble Pygmalion, and has worked with them on productions including Les Funérailles Royales de Louix XIV in Versailles, Bach’s St John Passion at the Philharmonie de Paris, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, Mein Traum with music by Schubert, Weber and Schumann and La Vie du Christ with music by Bach.

In 2023 he was responsible for the set and lighting designs for Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice in Halle 47 in Floirac (Bordeaux).