British lighting designer Bruno Poet made his Royal Opera debut in 2002 on Babette’s Feast, directed by Tim Supple in the Linbury Studio Theatre. He has since returned to work on Orphée (directed by Francesco Negrin), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (directed by Olivia Fuchs) and Quartett (directed by John Fulljames) for The Royal Opera in the Linbury Studio Theatre, and on the main stage La donna del lago and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, directed by Fulljames, Don Giovanni, directed by Kasper Holten, I due Foscari, directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, and Otello, directed by Keith Warner, for The Royal Opera; for The Royal Ballet Alastair Marriott’s Connectome and The Unknown Soldier, Whelan/Watson: Other Stories and Javier De Frutos’s Les Enfants Terribles; and for Welsh National Opera Peter Pan, directed by Warner.

Poet has designed lighting for opera productions worldwide. His European work includes Holten’s productions of Béatrice et Bénédict (Theater an der Wien) and Cavalleria rusticana (Norwegian National Opera), Pagliacci (Norwegian National Opera), Al gran sole carico d’amore (Berlin State Opera), The Cunning Little Vixen (Royal Danish Opera), L’arbore di Diana (Teatro Real, Madrid, and Liceu, Barcelona) and Das Portrait and Carmen (Bregenz Festival). He has a long association with Opera North, productions including Carousel, La clemenza di Tito and The Makropulos Case, and with Garsington Festival, productions including L’Olimpiade, Don Giovanni and Il turco in Italia.

Poet designs lighting regularly for National Theatre productions, including Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Frankenstein and Timon of Athens, and in the West End, including Miss Saigon. He won an Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design and Knight of Illumination Award for Frankenstein. He has also designed the lighting for a world tour by Icelandic band Sigur Rós.

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