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Francisco Negrin

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His work is distinguished by faithfulness to the text and music, refracted through a thoroughly modern but elegant sensibility.

Francisco Negrin’s portfolio includes more than 50 major productions at theatres including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, San Francisco Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Royal Danish Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and Opéra de Monte-Carlo, as well as at the Santa Fe Festival and New York City Opera.

This season Francisco Negrin stages the world-premiere of Hans Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen for Royal Danish Opera.

Many of his productions are available on DVD, including Handel’s Giulio Cesare from both the Royal Danish Opera and Opera Australia, Partenope from Copenhagen, Norma and L’arbore di Diana from Barcelona and I puritani from Amsterdam.

Trubaduren © kglteater

Trailer SALOME © ABAO-OLBE ópera de Bilbao

Mozart: Idomeneo at Aalto-Musiktheater, Essen © Francisco Negrin

Handel: Partenope (excerpt) © Decca Classics

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“Francisco Negrin’s production was effective in its creation of a world of castles, animals and the passing of the seasons The Catalan artists Playmodes created a light box of 155,000 LEDs, studded throughout Palle Steen Christensen’s sweepingly dramatic set and programmed by Bruno Poet and Matt Daw…The reception was raucous.”

(Opera Magazine, December 2019)

“Francisco Negrin’s quiet, unobtrusive staging which is touching and leaves little to be desired musically. This Idomeneo is one of the best that the Aalto Theatre has staged in recent years.”

(Online Musik Magazin, December 2014)

“Cheers and applause for Il Trovatore.”

(Corriere Adriatico, July 2013)

“Even in a timeless setting, the director Franciso Negrin manages to emphasize the gloomy and dark atmosphere that contains the story.”

(Cronache Maceratesi, July 2013)

“In his whimsical and moving new production for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the director Francisco Negrin takes Rinaldo far from the realm of Muslim-Christian conflict. Rinaldo was primarily meant to dazzle audiences. This Lyric Opera production does just that.”

(The New York Times, March 2012)