Michael Levine trained at Central Saint Martins in London. He has worked for nearly forty years internationally as a stage and costume designer. His opera productions include Die Liebe der Danae and The Cunning Little Vixen (Bavarian State Opera, Munich), Carmen (Metropolitan Opera, New York), Die Zauberflöte (Palau de les Arts, Valencia), Madama Butterfly (Bregenz Festival), Turandot and Carmen (Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam), Jenůfa (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Semele and Peter Grimes (Teatro Real, Madrid), Billy Budd (Royal Opera House, London, and Teatro Real), Jenůfa (Royal Opera House), Iphigénie en Tauride, The Queen of Spades, Madama Butterfly, Wozzeck and Sweeney Todd (Zurich Opera House), Die Zauberflöte (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Paris and Amsterdam), Parsifal, Madama Butterfly, Eugene Onegin and Mefistofele (Metropolitan Opera), The Rape of Lucretia and L’incoronazione di Poppea (Glyndebourne Festival), Rusalka, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Capriccio and Elektra (Opéra national de Paris), Madama Butterfly, Between Worlds, Die Zauberflöte and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (English National Opera, London), Benjamin, dernière nuit (Opéra de Lyon) and Don Giovanni at La Scala, Milan. Other productions include Figures in Extinction (Nederlands Dans Theater), Atonement (Ballett Zürich and Joffrey Ballet, Chicago), Mnemonic (Complicité and National Theatre, London), Chicago (Komische Oper Berlin), The Seagull (Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm) and A Disappearing Number, The Elephant Vanishes, The Encounter and The Beautiful Game in London’s West End.
