Ordered according to the most recent performance of each show.
This is a the totally rethought indoor version of the previous outdoor production. Now set in a claustrophobic space but with the same focus on…
The Snow Queen, a new opera by Hans Abrahamsen, had its world premiere in Copenhagen in October 2019 at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.…
In this production Negrin focused on making virtues out of the famously difficult aspects of the libretto. This resulted in unexpected emotional impact and theatrical…
Negrin’s second production of Mitridate was conceived from scratch, unlike the previous one’s many adaptations to various venues. This show introduced a number of new,…
This was an innovative concept, being one of the first opera productions to be set 100% within an augmented reality world made of video mapped…
This is Francisco’s second production of this opera. Intent on making palpable every nuance in the extraordinary music, the concept, though quite traditional in appearance,…
Francisco’s second production of this brilliantly visual piece, composed by Handel to show off scenic effects and delight audiences with vocal virtuosity and successful arias.…
This show was conceived along with Francisco’s second production of Cosa Rara as a Martin y Soler mini-series, and shared the same design team. Both…
After directing Norma, also by Bellini, Francisco Negrin was very interested in directing another major Bel Canto piece but with a cast who would be…
This was Francisco’s second production of this opera.While the first was in the totally authentic theatre at Drottningholm and hence rather “in style”, this one…
This is the second production of Partenope directed by Francisco Negrin. Using his experience of the piece but starting from scratch with a new design team,…
La Corte de Farón was a great challenge. How to stage a quaint and “naughty” cabaret-operetta from the start of the 20th century in a…
This was Francisco Negrin’s second collaboration with Es Devlin. The show opened the season at the Liceo where the piece had amazingly never been performed.…
The challenge here was for a totally non-germanic director to direct a classic Viennese operetta , not so far from Vienna, and for a germanic…
Originally conceived for the very specific attributes of the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices (a converted power station in the middle of the river in Geneva),…
Francisco’s debut in Germany, and the first chance to work with his new Barcelona-based design team. Temistocle is the driest Seria style opera of the…
Originally intended to be a revival of the earlier site-specific production done for Copenhagen (see Orphée v1), it was a challenge not only to rethink…
Concieving a second production of Julius Caesar after his earlier Sydney one was such a hit was of course daunting to Francisco Negrin. But with…
A new opera house, a new piece, new laser-driven remote control technology for the set, and the debut of a great conductor… Lots of innovation…
Francisco’s most controversial show up to that time. The Vienna version, pure. The real title, Il Dissoluto Punito. Zerlina’s path from purity to revenge, and…
The combined magic of a little known Handel masterpiece with a rare connection between the production team, cast and conductor, had an astonishing effect on…
This is the production that started Francisco Negrin’s international career. It was a total hit that received rave reviews and blew away the unsuspecting Sydney…
Another chance for Francisco to work with his “Handel team” (Harry Bicket, David Daniels, Lisa Saffer…etc), and to explore the possibilities offered by dance within…
It was a challenge to turn Ginastera’s chaotic but incredibly strong score and premise into a dramatic and emotive evening, but with the help of…
This was a coproduction between the Théâtre des Champs Elysées and Lausanne opera. The show then also was seen at ABAO in Bilbao in a…
A site specific production thought up for the wonderful electrical power station called Turbinehallerne that the Danish Opera used for a few years in Copenhagen…
This production sadly had to be based on the Richard Bonynge edition of the score, which did not include all the more recently found material,…
Uniting the students of the Opera and Theatre departments of the Guildhall, along with Dance students from The Place dance school, this huge show (more…
This show was designed to show off the workings and original sets of the intact 18th century theatre in the Palace of Drottningholm in Stockholm.…
This piece was commissioned by the Traverse Theatre for Edinburgh’s main Festival . Francisco Negrin was asked to research young Scottish composers and he selected…
The little known Gounod piece La Colombe was a perfect and unusual companion for L’Heure Espagnole in this double bill staged for the students in…
This show was designed using a budget and time slot that were intended for the revival of an old production, so it was a very…
This piece was created by Francisco Negrin and Paul Griffiths using arias and ensembles Mozart wrote for singers to include in operas by other composers…
This was a production that Francisco Negrin prepared using the existing set and most of the costumes from a previous production by his mentor François…
The second opera to ever be staged at what would become a very respected festival in following seasons. At that point, the terrace of the…
A semi-staged performance using only the artists’ performance skills and a few simple props Part of the South Bank Centre’s “The inspiration of Karol Szymanowski”…
Francisco Negrin’s first major production. With its very extreme concept the production went quite against the grain in Nice where it was strongly booed on…
This was a project developed with conductor Peter Ash, creating a performable version of Debussy’s unfinished fragments, staged in the very atmospheric Christchurch in Spitalfields,…