Christian Pinaud

Light designer

Christian Pinaud was born in France and graduated from art school in Paris. As a lighting designer he collaborates with drama and opera companies in Europe (e.g. the Opéra Bastille in Paris and opera houses in Liège, Montpellier, Nancy, Strasbourg and Turin) and overseas (San Francisco). He has recently collaborated on a large number of operatic productions: The Coronation of Poppea (the Spoletto Festival in Charleston, directed by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser), Rigoletto (Lausanne, directed by Lorenzo Mariani) and The Flying Dutchman (San Francisco, directed by Pierre Strosser). With the director Stephen Taylor he has collaborated on productions of The Rape of Lucretia (Strasbourg) and Don Pasquale (Aix-les-Bains). Next year he will design lighting for La Bohème at opera houses in Seoul and Tokyo.