Ricardo Pardo

Spanish Production Designer Ricardo Pardo studied theatre design at London Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design and has a BA in Interior Architecture from the Superior School of Architecture at the Madrid Polytechnic University from where he also holds an MA in History of Painting. He was the winner of the Philips Lawrence Awards.

Credits

His opera designs include Roméo et Juliette (Ingoldstadt-Germnay), for Luke Styles’s Unborn in America (Vaults Festival London), The Marriage of Figaro (King’s Head London) and The Medium (Cochrane Theatre, London). He works regularly with Director and Designer Antony McDonald as Associate for Tristan und Isolde (Opéra national du Rhin), Hansel and Gretel (Royal Opera House London), Julietta (English National Opera) and assisted Antony McDonald on many productions, among others the Olivier Award Winner Katya Kabanova (Royal Opera House), L’enfant et Les Sortileges (Bolshoi Theatre Moscow), La Nozze Di Figaro (La Scala Milan), Lohengrin (Greek National Opera), Fiddle on The Roof (Grange Park Opera) Alice (Croatian National Ballet). He has been also Associate Designer for Charles Edwards’s production of Rigoletto (Opera North) and assisted designer Kevin Knight for director Paul Curran’s productions of Il Trovatore, The Miserly Knight and the Florentine Tragedy.
Pardo has also designed for theatre and dance including, Suddenly Last Summer (Adam Mickiewicz Theatre Poland), 9 Minutes (Jackson’s Lane Theatre-London), Richard III (Courtyard Theatre), Mwana (The TRON and Traverse Theatres Scotland), Spring Time (Glasgow TRON), The Knight and the Crescent Hare (Scotland tour), JukeBox (TRON Theatre and London’s Asian Centre), Olympics of the Every Day (Bellahouston Sports Centre, Glasgow) and Old Bags (Wimbledon Theatre, London), He was the winner of the Philips Lawrence Awards.

Training

Interior Architecture/Theatre Design