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Patrick Kinmonth
Set designer
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Biography
After earning a degree in English Literature from the University of Oxford in 1979, Patrick Kinmonth began his career as an artistic editor at Vogue, before gradually expanding his work to painting, architecture and interior design, opera direction, scenography and costume design, curating fashion exhibitions, and critical writing. In 2006, he designed the exhibition Anglomania for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
In 2007, he began his collaboration with Valentino on a series of major retrospectives presented between 2007 and 2013 at the Ara Pacis in Rome, the Louvre in Paris, and Somerset House in London. In 2012, he was named “World Innovator in Design” by the Wall Street Journal.
In 2008, he made his opera directing debut with Madama Butterfly at the Cologne Opera. He has directed and designed numerous productions, including Samson et Dalila at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Don Giovanni and Rigoletto at Theater Augsburg, Die Gezeichneten at Cologne Opera, Daphne in Toulouse, Solaris in Cologne, Gassmann’s L’Opera Seria at La Monnaie in Brussels, La Clemenza di Tito at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, The Seven Deadly Sins at the Royal Danish Opera, and Tannhäuser and Tristan und Isolde in Cologne. He has also collaborated with Opernhaus Zürich, Staatsoper Hamburg, American Ballet Theatre in New York, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Ballet, and Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville.
In parallel, he has developed work in exhibitions and museum design. He participated in the restoration of the Wrightsman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and designed the exhibition Dangerous Liaisons (2013). In 2016, he created VOGUE100 at the National Portrait Gallery in London, followed by HOUSE STYLE at Chatsworth in 2017.
More recently, he curated and designed India in Fashion, a major exhibition at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai. He collaborates closely with choreographer Cathy Marston on Jane Eyre (2017), Snowblind (2018), Mrs. Robinson (2022), and Summer and Smoke (2023). Other productions include Sleeping Beauty for the Greek National Ballet (2018), Les Noces for the Paris Opera Ballet, Raymonda for the Royal Swedish Opera, A Guest House with Fernando Melo, Don Quixote with Aaron S. Watkin for the Semperoper Ballet, and Seven Deadly Sins with Pontus Lidberg at the Montpellier Danse Festival (2022).
His recent work also includes sets and costumes for La Rondine at Teatro alla Scala and Jenůfa at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. This season, he designed the sets and costumes for the revival of Alcina at the Teatro dell’Opera, directed by Pierre Audi. Patrick Kinmonth has recently become International Editor-at-Large for The World of Interiors.
