GARY McCANN
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER FOR OPERA, THEATRE & BALLET

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Photos from the Semiramide sequence within our new production of Nabucco at Teatro alla Scala. The music for this extraordinary section — effectively a ballet within the opera — had not been performed since Brussels in 1848. For the pro
Der Rosenkavalier at Garsington Opera. For Strauss’s extraordinary world of nostalgia, vanity and desire, Bruno Ravella and I filled the stage with giant acanthus volutes, collapsing ornament and architecture into an overblown Viennese dream. W
Giant crow puppet created by the Scala props atelier for the dream sequence at the beginning of Act IV of Nabucco at Teatro alla Scala. Wearing a distorted version of Abigaille’s green dress, the figure appears as part omen, part hallucination
I had enormous fun designing the Babylonian costumes for the third act of Nabucco at Teatro alla Scala. It was a complete joy collaborating with the extraordinary costume workshops at La Scala, working alongside Danilo Donati and Costume Tailor Rome
Siegfried at National Centre for the Performing Arts. The set is built around a huge suspended LED ring with screens running across both the inner and outer surfaces of the structure, together with an enormous LED wall at the rear of the stage. Combi
Designed for Nabucco at Teatro alla Scala: a 16-metre wide compressed elliptical cupola inspired by the Pantheon. The structure represents the ruined temple of the Hebrews — first encountered as a fractured remnant, before returning gradually
Designed for Nabucco at Teatro alla Scala: the Tower of Babel. One of the most technically ambitious structures developed for the production, conceived as both architecture and machine. Emerging through the stage floor during the performance, the t
I often have the privilege of working with exceptional craftspeople, but the workshops of Teatro alla Scala are truly extraordinary in the scale and precision of their engineering and metalwork. Created for Nabucco: an automated three-headed mechanic
Models, workshops and the beginnings of the production, featured in this month’s Scala magazine ahead of tomorrow evening’s premiere. #TeatroAllaScala #Nabucco #Verdi #OperaDesign #GaryMcCann
Working on the flat in Brighton in between projects. We treated the walls a bit like a stage set — letting the architecture and landscape drift into each other. Painted by Sarah Crane. #interiordesign #homedecor #renovation #setdesign #brigh