About
Dick Bird designs for Opera, Theatre and Dance.
Opera designs include FALSTAFF at the Teatro La Fenice, LES PECHEURS DES PERLES at New York’s Metropolitan Opera – THE PEARL FISHERS at the English National Opera, OTELLO [Wiener Staatsoper], DON GIOVANNI [Greek National Opera], LA DONNA DEL LAGO [Royal Opera House], NIXON IN CHINA [Royal Danish Opera], THE FIREWORK MAKER’S DAUGHTER [Linbury & Tour] HOUSE OF THE DEAD [Opera North], BEATRICE ET BENEDICT and DER FREISCHUTZ [L’Opéra Comique], DAS PORTRAIT [Bregenz Festival], SNEGUROCHKA [Wexford Festival], LA BOHEME and EUGENE ONEGIN [Vilnius City Opera], THE GAMBLER [Opera Zuid], STREET SCENE at the Teatro Real, Madrid, and THE ENCHANTED PIG [The Young Vic]
Designs for Ballet include The NUTCRACKER for the English National Ballet, GISELLE for the National Ballet of Japan] NUTCRACKER at the Royal Albert Hall and ALADDIN both for Birmingham Royal Ballet, THE NUTCRACKER [Star Dancers Tokyo], LA BAYADERE [K Ballet, Tokyo] and THE CANTERVILLE GHOST [English National Ballet].
Theatre includes LA GRANDE MAGIE and HAMLET at La Comédie Francaise], LA COMEDIE DES ERREURS at the Theatre Vidy and Les Bouffes du Nord, 12th NIGHT and THE TEMPEST [Teatr Polski], LIGHT [Complicite], LEAR [Sheffield Crucible], OWEN MEANY and THE NIGHT SEASON [National Theatre], HARVEST [Royal Court Theatre] OTHELLO and AS YOU LIKE IT [Shakespeare’s Globe].
In 2014 he designed the sets for Kate Bush’s BEFORE THE DAWN at Hammersmith Apollo, and in 2019 he designed WO DE XIAO HUO BUN for Sa Dingding in Xian.
In 2025 he was nominated for Outstanding Creative Contribution in the National Dance Awards, and THE HUDSUCKER PROXY won Best Design at the 2015 UK Theatre Awards.
He is currently working on a new ballet based on Charlie Chaplin’s CITY LIGHTS for the National Ballet of Japan.
A full list of productions can be found at www.unitedagents.co.uk/dick-bird