Peter J. Davison

Peter J. Davison | set designer

Peter J. Davison’s set designs for opera include Le nozze di Figaro (Vienna), Die Gezeichneten, Falstaff, and Die Schweigsame Frau (Zurich); Capriccio (Berlin and Torino); Der Rosenkavalier, Carmen, and Mary Stuart (ENO); Anna Bolena (Bayerische Staatsoper); Katya Kabanova (New Zealand); Mitridate, re di Ponto (Salzburg); Manon Lescaut (Australia); The Rake’s Progress, Le nozze di Figaro (Metropolitan Opera); The Queen of Spades (Royal Opera House); Guillaume Tell (Opera Bastille); Fidelio, Die Walküre, Porgy and Bess, Salome, La forza del destino, La traviata (Washington); La bohème (Royal Albert Hall), La rondine (La Fenice); Cyrano de Bergerac (La Scala); Les contes d’Hoffmann (Beijing); Heart of a Soldier, Two Women, Porgy and Bess (San Francisco Opera); La traviata (Bolshoi Theatre); and Norma (Santiago, Chile). Theater work includes The Liar (Old Vic), The White Devil, Don Carlos, and The Duchess of Malfi (Royal Shakespeare Company); Bed, Le Cid, Afterlife (National Theatre); Medea, Hamlet, Deuce, Copenhagen, Democracy, Is He Dead, Blithe Spirit (Broadway); Saint Joan, Embers (West End, London). Musicals include Rebecca (Vienna), Showboat (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Washington Opera), West Side Story (Houston Grand Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago); and Sound of Music (Glimmerglass Festival, Houston Grand Opera). Peter was nominated for a Tony, Drama Desk, and Olivier Award for Medea. He won the Best Designer at the 1994 Martini/TMA award for Medea and Saint Joan and a Schikaneder award for Besuch der Alten Dame. Peter was nominated for an Olivier Award for Le Cid and Saint Joan.