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LLOYD SOBEL (Lighting Designer) designs lighting extensively both nationally and abroad. His work includes designs for the Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Arizona, Ballet Idaho, Colorado Ballet, Eugene Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet, State Street Ballet in Santa Barbara and the National Ballet of Estonia. His collaborations with Mai Murdmaa since 1991 for the Estonian National Ballet at the Talinn Opera House have included the world premiere of a full-length ballet based on Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment with an original score by Arvo Part, and a number of other world premieres.
He recently completed his second season designing for the Houston Grand Opera’s outdoor productions of Madame Butterfly and Two Faces of Romeo and Juliet. He has lighted a production of John Adams opera, El Nino, performed in Atlanta and opening the Ravinia Festival with the Atlanta Symphony.
Additional credits include designs for choreographers David Parsons, Robert Battle, Jimmy Gamonet, Christian Holder, Donald McKayle, Toni Pimble, Peter Pucci, William Soleau, and Lynn Taylor. Mr Sobel designed lighting for Thomas Ades’ opera, Powder Her Face, performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s “New Wave Festival” in New York. Mr. Sobel designed the lighting for the highly acclaimed New York productions and national tours of A Room of One’s Own, starring Eileen Atkins as Virginia Woolf, and for Alec McCowen’s production of St. Mark’s Gospel.
Recently, Mr. Sobel designed the lighting for a production of A View from the Bridge directed by Arthur Miller’s son at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and the gala opening of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver, where he resides. Lloyd continues this summer as resident designer for the Aspen Music Festval’s opera program.
