Gideon Davey

British stage and costume designer Gideon Davey was born in Bristol. In 2015 he won the Austrian Music Theatre Award as Designer of the Year for Platée at the Theater an der Wien and in 2004 was named Costume Designer of the Year by Opernwelt for Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria at the Bavarian State Opera.

Recent designs include Le nozze di Figaro in Essen; Giulio Cesare at La Scala, Milan; Arabella, Hänsel und Gretel, Maria Stuarda and Pierangelo Valtinoni’s Der Zauberer von Oz at the Zurich Opera; Agrippina and Tancredi at the Theater an der Wien; The Cunning Little Vixen in Turin, Lille and Strasbourg; The Queen of Spades at the English National Opera; Cesti’s L’Orontea and Chabrier’s L’Étoile for the Frankfurt Opera; Alcina at the Teatro Real in Madrid and in Bordeaux; Platée at the Theater an der Wien and at the Opéra Comique in Paris; Lully’s Armide at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris; Rinaldo for the Glyndebourne Festival; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Dutch National Opera; Radamisto at Santa Fe Opera and the English National Opera; The Cunning Little Vixen for Grange Park Opera; La donna del lago for Garsington Opera; Die Fledermaus at the Korea National Opera; Roméo et Juliette and Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bavarian State Opera; Luisa Miller in Lyon; Giulio Cesare in Erfurt; Acis and Galatea at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and Macbeth in Malmö.

As a set designer Gideon Davey has recently worked also on productions of Madama Butterfly and Don Carlo in Graz, Hippolyte et Aricie and Idomeneo at the Zurich Opera, Les Contes d’Hoffmann in Karlsruhe and Walton’s Troilus and Cressida at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.

He has also designed the costumes for Lohengrin and Owen Wingrave at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo in Nancy and Versailles; Der Rosenkavalier and Marius Felix Lange’s Das Gespenst von Canterville at the Komische Oper in Berlin; Luisa Miller in Hamburg; Charpentier’s David et Jonathas at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Edinburgh Festival, the Opéra Comique and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Frank Schwemmer’s Robin Hood in Berlin, Oslo and Zurich; La traviata at the Dresden Semperoper; Pagliacci and Schoenberg’s Von heute auf morgen at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Opera North.