The lighting designer James F. Ingalls first worked with the Los Angeles Master Chorale on Orlando di Lasso’s Lagrime di San Pietro in Peter Sellars’s staging. He designs lighting for opera, ballet and theatre productions, and also for concerts.
He is a long-term collaborator with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, for whom he has designed lighting for Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri, John Adams’s The Gospel According to the Other Mary and El Niño, Haydn’s The Creation, Antonio Estévez’s Cantata Criolla, The Tristan Project, Kaija Saariaho’s oratorio La Passion de Simone, György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments, and most recently Fidelio, in 2022.
Recent dance projects include Ibsen’s House with the Singapore Ballet and the Charlotte Ballet, Raymonda with the Dutch National Ballet and Twyla Now! at the New York City Center. In addition, he often works with dancers from the organization The Wooden Floor in Santa Ana, California.
Recent theatre projects include Once Before I Go at the Gate Theatre in Dublin and The Seagull and Three O’Casey Comedies for the Druid Theatre Company in Galway. His work with the Mark Taper Forum includes The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Price and A Parallelogram.
He has a special working partnership with the opera director Peter Sellars, with whom he has collaborated on productions that include the world premieres of Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin and Adriana Mater, John Adams’s Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer and Doctor Atomic, and, in 2022, Le Roman de Fauvel at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. At the Salzburg Festival, James F. Ingalls has designed lighting for Peter Sellars’s productions of Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise, Stravinsky’s Oedipus rex / Symphony of Psalms, The Persians, Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin and, in 2019, Lagrime di San Pietro.
