Born in Belgium‚ Benoit Dugardyn graduated as an architect at the University of Leuven and has been deputy technical director at La Monnaie and technical director at the Vlaamse Oper. He is a lecturer at the Postgraduate Course for Stage Design in Antwerp.
Credits include Die Fledermaus (Glyndebourne); Ariodante (Halle); The Bartered Bride‚ Tsar’s Bride and L’isola disabitata (Frankfurt); Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena (Innsbruck); Die Zauberflöte (Opera Zuid); Il Trovatore (Saarbrücken); La bohème (Malmö); Der Ring des Nibelungen‚ Salome (Nuremberg); La clemenza di Tito (Dallas‚ Minnesota‚ ROH); Il Trovatore (Los Angeles‚ Washington‚ Gothenburg‚ Toronto); Simon Boccanegra (New Zealand Festival); Wozzeck (Braunschweig); Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Delphin Poulopeau (Strasbourg); Le nozze di Figaro (Glimmerglass); Venus and Adonis and Dido and Aeneas (Innsbruck‚ Antwerp); Tosca (Oscarsborg Opera); Orfeo ed Euridice (Theater an der Wien); Il Trovatore (Genova); Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena (Holland Festival) and Roberto Devreux (Dallas).
Recent projects include La Traviata (Magdeburg)‚ Maria Stuarda and Anna Bolena (Canadian Opera Co)‚ Faust (Santa Fe), Iolanta and Francesca da Rimini (Theater an der Wien) all with Stephen Lawless; La Strada (Luxembourg) with Waut Koeken; Cavalleria Rusticana /Il Pagliacci (Oscarsborg Operaen) with Stein Winge‚ Oresteia (Muziktheater Transparent) with Caroline Petrick and Lakmé with Paul-Emile Fourny (Theater Bonn).
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