Fabrice Kebour Lumières

Biography

Fabrice Kebour began his career in New York. For over twenty years, his work has been presented on major international stages, including: The Comédie-Française, the Opéra national de Paris, the Vienna State Opera, the Bregenz Festival, La Scala in Milan, the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, and La Monnaie in Brussels.

Kebour designed the lighting for Giorgio Barberio Corsetti's productions of Un chapeau de paille d'Italie at the Comédie-Française; Macbeth and Turandot at La Scala in Milan; and Don Carlo at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Kebour has also collaborated with Sir David Pountney for many years, notably on La Forza del Destino at the Vienna State Opera, The Magic Flute on Lake Bregenz, and the world premiere of Philip Glass's Spur of the Moment, which inaugurated the new opera house in Linz.

In 2011, the Prague Quadriennale invited him to exhibit his work alongside other artists who have made an impact on their generation in the "Light Speaks" retrospective. He was nominated for the Molière Award for Best Lighting Designer in 2005, 2009, and 2011 and for the Wales Theatre Award in 2015.

His previous projects include Il Viaggio and Dante at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, both directed by Claus Guth; Il Trittico at the Salzburg Festival, directed by Christof Loy; the Ring at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, directed by Sir David Pountney; and Hélène d'Égypte at La Scala in Milan, directed by Sven-Eric Bechtolf. More recently, he designed the lighting for West Side Story at the Théâtre du Châtelet, La Passagère and La Voix humaine in Madrid, La Fiamma at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Ariodante at the Opéra national du Rhin, Penderecki's Le Masque noir in Warsaw, Parsifal at Glyndebourne, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Bayreuth. For the 2025–2026 season, he will design the lighting for La Forza del Destino at the Opernhaus Zurich and Ariodante at the Royal Opera House in London.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Faust (2011), La Bohème (2017), Bérénice (2018), Il Viaggio (2025), and Il Trittico (2025).

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