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Peter van Praet Lumières
Season 25/26 Artist

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Biography

Peter Van Praet was the head lighting designer at the Opéra de Flandre. There, he began working with Robert Carsen. He then oversaw revivals of Sémélé at the English National Opera and Tosca at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

For Carsen, he designed the lighting for Kátia Kabanová and La petite renarde rusée at the Opéra de Flandre; Jenůfa at the Saito Kinen Festival; Der Rosenkavalier at the Salzburg Festival and the Royal Opera House in London; and Don Giovanni at La Scala in Milan. He also designed the lighting for La Petite Renarde rusée, L'Affaire Makropoulos, De la maison des morts, and Don Carlo at the Opéra national du Rhin; Falstaff at La Scala in Milan and the Royal Opera House in London; CO2 at La Scala in Milan; and The Beggar's Opera at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.... Van Praet also designed the lighting for Norma, Bluebeard's Castle, and The Cunning Little Vixen in Brussels for Christophe Coppens. He designed the lighting for Carmen and Les Vêpres siciliennes in Rome, Aida and Tosca in Macerata, as well as the sets and lighting for La Favorite at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo and Bordeaux. Last season, he designed the lighting for L'Orontea at La Scala in Milan and Les Voyages de Monsieur Brouček at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.

During the 2025–26 season, he designed the lighting for Così fan tutte at La Scala in Milan.

At the Opéra national de Paris, he designed the lighting for Rusalka (2002), Les Boréades (2003), Capriccio (2004), Tannhäuser (2007), Elektra (2013), The Magic Flute (2014), and Ariodante (2023). He also designed the lighting and sets for Nixon in China (2023).

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