Opera Productions

This production of Shostakovich’s masterpiece pushed the possibilities offered by the opera house in Leipzig…

Francisco directed this production in Valencia in 2010, with a concept that showed the dangers…

After a year’s delay due to the pandemic, Nabucco opened at the monumental Sankt Margarethen…

This is a the totally rethought indoor version of the previous outdoor production. Now set…

Francisco’s production of Jérusalem, the French language opera by Verdi, opened in Bonn in January…

The Snow Queen, a new opera by Hans Abrahamsen, had its world premiere in Copenhagen…

In this production Negrin focused on making virtues out of the famously difficult aspects of…

A coproduction between two totally different theatres (the new stage in Oslo and the old…

Mozart’s favourite opera and a piece Negrin had wished to stage from the beginning of…

Negrin’s second production of Mitridate was conceived from scratch, unlike the previous one’s many adaptations…

This production opened to long standing ovations. The piece was an unexpected surprise for audiences…

This was an innovative concept, being one of the first opera productions to be set…

This is Francisco’s second production of this opera. Intent on making palpable every nuance in…

This production seemed quite traditional in its visuals but surprised the audience by in fact…

Francisco’s second production of this brilliantly visual piece, composed by Handel to show off scenic…

This show was conceived along with Francisco’s second production of Cosa Rara as a Martin…

After directing Norma, also by Bellini, Francisco Negrin was very interested in directing another major…

This was Francisco’s second production of this opera.While the first was in the totally authentic…

This production was conceived especially for Christine Brewer and, of course , for the very…

This is the second production of Partenope directed by Francisco Negrin. Using his experience of the…

La Corte de Farón was a great challenge. How to stage a quaint and “naughty”…

The last in 12 years of collaborations with designer Anthony Baker who moved on to…

This was Francisco Negrin’s  second collaboration with Es Devlin.  The show opened the season at …

This production was blessed with many starry casts and been seen several times on television…

The challenge here was for a totally non-germanic director to direct a classic Viennese operetta…

Originally conceived for the very specific attributes of the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices (a converted…

Francisco’s debut in Germany, and the first chance to work with his new Barcelona-based design…

Originally intended to be a revival of the earlier site-specific production done for Copenhagen (see…

Concieving a second production of Julius Caesar after his earlier Sydney one was such a…

A new opera house, a new piece, new laser-driven remote control technology for the set,…

First presented as Fidelio at the Flemish Opera, the production was then adapted to suit…

The intention of this production was to show the really lyrical and tender aspects of…

As Santa Fe Opera’s own publicity for the following season put it, Agrippina turned out…

Francisco’s most controversial show up to that time. The Vienna version, pure. The real title,…

The combined magic of a little known Handel masterpiece with a rare connection between the…

Presented at the Flemish Opera, this production, entirely concentrated on the idea of the protagonist…

This is the production that started Francisco Negrin’s international career. It was a total hit…

Another chance for Francisco to work with his “Handel team” (Harry Bicket, David Daniels, Lisa…

It was a challenge to turn Ginastera’s chaotic but incredibly strong score and premise into…

This was a coproduction between the Théâtre des Champs Elysées and Lausanne opera. The show…

A site specific production thought up for the wonderful electrical power station called Turbinehallerne that…

This was one of Negrin’s most successful shows ever. The unknown but hugely effective piece,…

This production sadly had to be based on the Richard Bonynge edition of the score,…

Uniting the students of the Opera and Theatre departments of the Guildhall, along with Dance…

This show was designed to show off the workings and original sets of the intact…

James MacMillan’s Visitatio Sepulchri is a stage oratorio that was premiered at the Tramway theatre…

This piece was commissioned by the Traverse Theatre for Edinburgh’s main Festival . Francisco Negrin…

The little known Gounod piece La Colombe was a perfect and unusual companion for L’Heure…

This was a new staging by Francisco, but devised using an existing set and existing…

This show was designed using a budget and time slot that were intended for the…

This piece was created by Francisco Negrin and Paul Griffiths using arias and ensembles Mozart…

This was a production that Francisco Negrin prepared using the existing set and most of…

The second opera to ever be staged at what would become a very respected festival…

A semi-staged performance using only the artists’ performance skills and a few simple props Part…

Francisco Negrin’s first major production. With its very extreme concept the production went quite against…

This was a project developed with conductor Peter Ash, creating a performable version of Debussy’s…