Peter Van Praet

Peter Van Praet Lumières

Season 25/26 Artist – Season 26/27 Artist

Biography

Peter Van Praet was the lighting designer for the Opera of Flanders, where he began working with Robert Carsen, for whom he later handled the revivals of Semele at the English National Opera and Tosca at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Since then, he has designed the lighting, always for Robert Carsen, for productions including Kátia Kabanová, The Cunning Little Vixen, Jenůfa, Der Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, The Makropoulos Case, From the House of the Dead, Don Carlo, Falstaff, CO2, and The Beggar’s Opera.

Peter Van Praet has also created the lighting for Norma, Bluebeard’s Castle, and The Cunning Little Vixen in Brussels for Christophe Coppens. For Valentina Carrasco, he designed the lighting for Carmen and I Vespri Siciliani in Rome, Aida and Tosca in Macerata, as well as the sets and lighting for La Favorite in Bergamo and Bordeaux.

Last season, he designed the lighting for L’Orontea in Milan and Les Voyages de Monsieur Brouček in Berlin.

At the Paris National Opera: lighting – Rusalka, 2002; Les Boréades, 2003; Capriccio, 2004; Tannhäuser, 2007; Elektra, 2013; The Magic Flute, 2014; Ariodante, 2023 | lighting and sets – Nixon in China, 2023.

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