Michael trained at Central Saint Martins. Opera credits include Atonement (Zurich), The Magic Flute (Palau de les Arts), Madama Butterfly (Bregenz Festival), Turandot, Carmen (Dutch National Opera), Jenůfa (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Semele, The Cunning Little Vixen (Bayerische Staatsoper), Peter Grimes (Teatro Real, Madrid), Billy Budd (Royal Opera House, Teatro Real, Madrid), Jenůfa (ROH), Iphigénie en Tauride, The Queen of Spades, Madama Butterfly, Wozzek, Sweeney Todd (Zurich), Die Zauberflöte (Aix-en-Provence, Paris, Amsterdam), Carmen, Parsifal, Madama Butterfly, Eugene Onegin, Mefistofele (Metropolitan Opera), The Rape of Lucretia, L’incoronazione di Poppea (Glyndebourne Festival), Rusalka, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Capriccio, Elektra (Paris Opera), Madama Butterfly, Between Worlds, The Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (English National Opera), Benjamin, dernière nuit (Opéra de Lyon) and Don Giovanni (La Scala, Milan). Theatre designs include Mnemonic (National Theatre, Complicité), Chicago (Komische Oper Berlin), The Seagull (Stockholm) and A Disappearing Number, The Elephant Vanishes, The Encounter and The Beautiful Game (West End).
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