Dick Bird, set designer of Aladdin, designs for theatre, opera and ballet. Recent work includes Hamlet at the Comédie Française, La Donna del Lago at the Royal Opera House, La Bayadère for K-Ballet Tokyo, The Nutcracker for Start Dancers, Tokyo, and The Pearl Fishers for the Metropolitan Opera in New York and English National Opera. In 2014 he designed the sets for Kate Bush’s Before the Dawn at Hammersmith Apollo, and The Hudsucker Proxy won the UK Theatre Awards Best Design 2015. Upcoming work includes Street Scene at the Teatro Real, Madrid, Otello at the Vienna Staatsoper and the sets for Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker at the Royal Albert Hall.

September 2017