LESLIE TRAVERS

He trained at London’s Wimbledon School of Art and is recognised as one of the leading stage designers of his generation. He was honoured by Liverpool Institute of the Performing Arts with an honorary Doctorate and was shortlisted for Best Designer at the 2022 International Opera Awards. For the Greek National Opera Leslie has designed Bluebeard’s Castle (2023) and Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci (2024). Recent projects include Salome (Irish National Opera), Rusalka (Santa Fe Opera), Simon Boccanegra (Latvian National Opera), Francesca da Rimini and Manon Lescaut (La Scala‚ Milan), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Leipzig), Le nozze di Figaro (Israeli Opera, Philadelphia, San Diego), I puritani (Liceu Barcelona)‚ Don Pasquale and Werther (Nancy‚ winner of Prix Claude Rostand, Quebec, Marseille)‚ Al Wasl (World Expo, Dubai), Der Zigeunerbaron (Geneva)‚ Kát'a Kabanová (Scottish Opera), Billy Budd and The Merry Widow (Opera North)‚ Peter Grimes (Basel), The Excursions of Mr Broucek (Grange Park Opera)‚ Fiddler on the Roof (Malmö)‚ La clemenza di Tito (St Louis), Carmen (Welsh National Opera).