Charles Edwards

Born in Newcastle, he studied at the Central School of Art and Design. His designs include Adriana Lecouvreur, Werther and Faust (The Royal Opera), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lucia di Lammermoor, Jenůfa and The Makropulos Case (English National Opera), Gianni Schicchi, Il trovatore, Radamisto, Norma and Tosca (Opera North), I Masnadieri and La Calisto (La Scala, Milan), Don Carlos, Fedora (Metropolitan Opera), Il trovatore, Billy Budd, Wozzeck and The Makropulos Case (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Kát’a Kabanová and Wozzeck (Dallas), Macbeth and Jenůfa (Houston), Tamerlano (Komische Oper Berlin), Die tote Stadt (Strasbourg), La gazza ladra (Frankfurt) and Samson et Dalila (Darmstadt). As a director his work includes Joshua, Rigoletto and Oedipus Rex (Opera North), Tristan and Isolde, Don Quichotte and Idomeneo (Grange Park Opera), Turandot (Nationale Reisopera), Maria di Rohan (Wexford Festival Opera), Elektra (The Royal Opera), Tristan und Isolde (Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon) and The Sea and its Shore (Almeida).