John Bishop
Lighting design La Bohème, La Gioconda and The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko
Grange Park Opera début
Born: Bloemfontein, SA, grew up in Jamaica, Tanzania, Fiji and Lancashire. He lives in the Lake District has created lighting designs for more than 200 productions including Ring, Fliegende Holländer (Oslo), Elektra (San Francisco, Karlsruhe, Prague), Pagliacci, Tabarro (Seoul), Doktor Faust, Great Gatsby (Dresden), Hänsel & Gretel (Frankfurt, Belfast), Roi Arthus, Tannhäuser (Strasbourg), Nozze di Figaro (Warsaw), Tristan und Isolde (Aarhus), Peter Grimes (Madrid), Giovanni (São Paulo), Così, Falstaff, Vixen, Giovanni, Tosca, Hänsel & Gretel (Maastricht), Ernani (London), Traviata, West Side Story (Cardiff), Albert Herring (Leeds), Vanessa (Manchester), Scoring a Century (Birmingham & BYO), Under Milk Wood (Swansea), Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Romeo & Juliet (Kiev), Demones (Athens), Carmen (Turin).Plans include: Ring des Nibelungen (Bochum), Tannhäuser (Tokyo), Into the Woods (Vienna) and Boris Godunov (Frankfurt).