Gerald King, Lighting Designer

Pacific Opera Victoria
Lighting Designer for The Rake's Progress
November, 2009

A multi award-winning lighting designer, Gerald King has designed a number of productions for Pacific Opera Victoria, beginning with Giulo Cesare (2002). Subsequent designs for POV include La Bohème (2002), Lucia di Lammermoor (2003), Carmen (2004), Tosca (2005), Eugene Onegin (2005), The Rape of Lucretia (2006), Daphne and Don Giovanni (2007), Madama Butterfly (2008), and The Magic Flute (2009). He returns in November 2009 for POV's original production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress.

Other opera designs include La Traviata, Cosi fan tutte, and Die Fledermaus for Vancouver Opera, The Tales of Hoffmann for Opera Lyra, The Pirates of Penzance for Edmonton Opera, Romeo and Juliet and Il Trovatore for Opera Saskatchewan, The Magic Flute and Faust for Manitoba Opera.

He has also designed for Bard on the Beach, The Vancouver Playhouse, the National Arts Centre, the Belfry Theatre, Ballet British Columbia, the Arts Club Theatre, the National Ballet of Canada, Kokoro Dance, Western Canada Theatre, and the Great Canadian Theatre Company.

Mr. King is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

October, 2009