David Fielding
Stage designer
David Fielding is both a stage director and stage designer, and has collaborated on the following productions: Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (Bristol Old Vic), Pinter’s Betrayal (Glasgow Citizens), Botho Strauss’s Der Park, George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah (RSC), Thomas Bernhard's Eve of Retirement and Elisabeth II (for which he won the Time Out Award as best director and designer in 1993), Racine's Britannicus (Crucible Theatre), Handel's Rinaldo, Britten's The Turn of the Screw, Tchaikovsky's The Enchantress (Grange Park Opera), Richard Strauss’s Capriccio, Daphne, Die ägyptische Helena, Die Liebe der Danae, Intermezzo, Die schweigsame Frau and Arabella (Garsington Festival), Tannhäuser (Opera North), Rossini's Il Turco in Italia (English National Opera), Gerald Barry's The Intelligence Park (Almeida Festival) and Otello (Deutsche Oper am Rhein). He also designed the sets for the Tokyo New National Theatre's production of the Ring Cycle (Das Rheingold in 2001, Die Walküre in 2002, Siegfried in 2003 and Götterdämmerung in 2004). For Grange Park Opera he designed Massenet's Thais, Prokofiev's The Gambler and The Love for Three Oranges as well as Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and did the designs for Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust at Semperoper Dresden. His next project as set designer will be Berlioz's Les Troyens for the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.
