Carnival of the Animals
Music
Charles Camille Saint-Saens
Set Design
David Buckland »
Costume Design
Antony McDonald »
Lighting Design
Peter Mumford »
Choreographic Assistant
Sasha Roubicek
Biographies
Since 2001 David Buckland has created and now directs Cape Farewell, bringing together artists, scientists and educators on expeditions to the High Arctic to collectively address and raise awareness about climate change. It is on their journey to the world’s tipping points that their artists and scientists begin conversations, which leads to further research and production of pioneering new work that provokes and evokes a cultural response to the true scale of how the earth’s environment and climate are changing. From the expeditions has sprung an extraordinary body of artwork, educational projects and collaborations.
David is a designer, artist and film-maker whose lens-based works have been exhibited in numerous galleries in London, Paris and New York and collected by the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Getty Collection, Los Angeles amongst others.
Antony was part of the British team of designers who won the Golden Triga at the 2003 Prague Quadrennial for Un Ballo inMaschera, Bregenz Festival; and in 1991 for the 1989 Royal Shakespeare Production of Hamlet.
Previously for Rambert he designed A Tragedy of Fashion and Mercure. Current and previous design for dance includes Carmen, by Richard Alston, Pennies fromHeaven, Sleeping Beauty, Fearful Symmetries, Cinderella, Nutcracker, and Hidden Variables all by Ashley Page, for Scottish Ballet; Of Oil and Water and Eighty Eight for Siobhan Davies. As director/designer Antony recently premièred Das Rheingold for the Nationale Reisopera, Holland, the first part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle concluding in 2012. He will direct Queen of Spades for Grange Park Opera in 2012 and his Rusalka will be revived in 2011.
Recent designs: Prima Donna by RufusWainwright (world première, MIF). The Gambler, Royal Opera House, Billy Budd, Frankfurt, Cunning Little Vixen, Amsterdam, all directed by Richard Jones.
Recent opera and dance credits include Petrushka, Carmen (also set), Cheating, Lying, Stealing (Scottish Ballet); Prima Donna (Manchester International Festival); La Cenerentola (Glyndebourne); Madame Butterfly, Così fan tutte, Die Soldaten, Poppea (ENO); Il Trovatore (Paris); La Traviata (Antwerp); Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Fidelio, Don Giovanni (Scottish Opera); Madama Butterfly (Opera North); Giulio Cesare (Bordeaux);Madame Butterfly, Peter Grimes, 125th Gala (Metropolitan Opera, NYC); Eugene Onegin, The Bartered Bride (ROH).
Recent theatre credits include Prick UpYour Ears (Comedy); A View from the Bridge (Duke of York’s); Pictures from an Exhibition (Young Vic); Parlour Song, Cloud Nine, Hedda Gabler, The Goat (Almeida); All’s Well That Ends Well (NT); Carousel, Fiddler on the Roof (Savoy); Hamlet, Brand, Macbeth (RSC); Private Lives (West End, Broadway).
He won the 1995 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for The Glass Blew In (Siobhan Davies) and Fearful Symmetries (Royal Ballet) and Best Lighting Olivier Award 2003 for Bacchai (NT). www.petermumford.info