Peter van Praet

Peter van Praet began his career as the manager of the technical lighting department of the Flemish Opera in Belgium. The tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, staged in Valencia, was his first joint work with Carlus Padrissa. He has worked as the lighting designer on many productions by Robert Carsen. These include Jenůfa, The Cunning Little Vixen, Kát'a Kabanová and Richard III at the Flemish Opera, Rusalka and Capriccio in Paris, Fidelio in Amsterdam and Florence, Les Boréades in Paris and New York, Tosca at the Liceu in Barcelona, Der Rosenkavalier in Salzburg, La traviata at La Fenice in Venice, Elektra in Tokyo, A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Barcelona, Orphée and Iphigénie en Tauride at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Together with stage director Pierre Audi, he has worked on productions of