
Bruno Poet
From: Cornwall, England. LA Opera: The Two Foscari (2012, debut); Akhnaten (2016); Il Trovatore (2021); Don Giovanni (2023).
Working extensively in opera, theater, dance and live music, lighting designer Bruno Poet has collaborated with many of the world’s leading opera houses, with Rusalka (Sydney Opera House) winning the Australian Green Room Award. He has won three Knight of Illumination Awards, one for Björk’s Cornucopia (with Richard White), one for the Sigur Rós 2013 world tour and one for Frankenstein at the National Theatre, for which he also won the Olivier Award.
Recently he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Uncle Vanya in the West End and for a Drama Desk Award for Tina: The Tina Turner Musical on Broadway. His work in opera includes Akhnaten (Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera), Otello and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Covent Garden), Aida (ENO, Houston Grand Opera), Rinaldo (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Macbeth (Opéra National du Rhin, Opéra de Monte-Carlo) and Salome (Palau de les Arts, Valencia).
Learn more at BrunoPoet.co.uk.
Working extensively in opera, theater, dance and live music, lighting designer Bruno Poet has collaborated with many of the world’s leading opera houses, with Rusalka (Sydney Opera House) winning the Australian Green Room Award. He has won three Knight of Illumination Awards, one for Björk’s Cornucopia (with Richard White), one for the Sigur Rós 2013 world tour and one for Frankenstein at the National Theatre, for which he also won the Olivier Award.
Recently he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Uncle Vanya in the West End and for a Drama Desk Award for Tina: The Tina Turner Musical on Broadway. His work in opera includes Akhnaten (Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera), Otello and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Covent Garden), Aida (ENO, Houston Grand Opera), Rinaldo (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Macbeth (Opéra National du Rhin, Opéra de Monte-Carlo) and Salome (Palau de les Arts, Valencia).
Learn more at BrunoPoet.co.uk.