| Madeleine Boyd | |
| Birth Place: | Somerset, U.K. |
| Website: | http://www.madeleineboyd.co.uk |
Madeleine Boyd is a British set and costume designer who trained in Theatre Design at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design and graduated in 2001.
In April, 2009 The Independent Opera production of Pelléas et Mélisande (2008) at Sadler's Wells, for which she designed the set and costumes, was shortlisted for The Royal Philharmonic Society award for Opera and Music Theatre.[1]
She was awarded the 2008 design fellowship from Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells, London,[2] and was a finalist in the European Opera Directing Prize 2007, with her Design concept for Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák, with the director Alessandro Talevi.
She has worked primarily in Europe with the American opera director Thaddeus Strassberger and the South African opera director Alessandro Talevi.
Notable productions include Set and Costume Design: La Cenerentola, by Gioachino Rossini for Malmö Opera, Sweden; Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck, at Theater Augsburg, November 2007;[3] La Gazzetta by Gioachino Rossini, Rossini in Wildbad Festival, July 2007. Her designs for Elizabeth Maconchy's one-act operas The Sofa and The Departure, for Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells, in November 2007, were received with acclaim. The Chandos label released a recording of both operas (Chandos CD - CHAN10508), the cover of which features a photograph of her set for The Sofa.[4]
Fiona Maddocks in the London Evening Standard gave these productions a five star review, declaring the designs "exciting stuff".[5]
Madeleine is part of the creative team of Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells, London, which was founded to serve as a London platform for outstanding new directors, designers, singers and others involved in the staging and production of opera.
She has worked as a designer at Les Azuriales opera festival at Cap Ferrat, France, on productions including Partenope by George Frideric Handel.
In 2009 Madeleine designed the costumes for a production of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes for Teatro San Carlo, in Naples, Italy, conducted by Jeffrey Tate. Further productions in 2009 include La Cenerentola for Malmö Opera and Music Theatre, Sweden, and Les nuits d'été by Hector Berlioz, for Les Azuriales Opera Festival, with the director Thaddeus Strassberger and the conductor Bryan Evans, MBE.
Madeleine has worked as assistant and revival designer for opera productions at La Scala, in Milan, Italy, La Fenice, in Venice, Italy, Vlaamse Opera, in Antwerp, Belgium, the Spoleto Festival, in South Carolina, U.S.A., and Central City Opera in Central City, Colorado, U.S.A.