Simon Lima Holdsworth

Born in London, Simon Lima Holdsworth studied at Wimbledon School of Art, London and at the Kunstacademie, Maastricht. Designs for opera include The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus (Hyogo Performing Arts Center, Japan), Semele (Shanghai Symphony Hall), 170 Days in Nanking (Jiangsu Centre for the Performing Arts, China), Aida, Der Wildschütz and Gianni Schicchi/La Notte di un Nevrastenico (Theater Magdeburg, Germany), Noye’s Fludde (Nevill Holt Opera/Music in the Summer Air Festival, Shanghai/Beijing Music Festival/NI Opera), Tosca and The Magic Flute (NI Opera/Nevill Holt Opera), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Trier), Rigoletto, Carmen, and La bohème (Nevill Holt Opera), L'elisird'amore and Hansel and Gretel (Theater Augsburg), Alcina (Staatstheater Cottbus), Benvenuto Cellini (Theater Münster), The Bear (NI Opera/NederlandseReisopera) and Ariadne auf Naxos (Theater St Gallen) and Die Fledermaus (Theater für Niedersachsen).