Durham Marenghi
Durham Marenghi has designed the lighting for a wide variety of Theatre,
Opera, Dance, Trade, Concert and Television Productions and is the only
British lighting designer to have lit the Opening and Closing Ceremonies
of an Olympic Games.
THEATRE designs include the world tour of DIAMONDS for Holiday on Ice;
The UK tour of DANCING ON ICE – THE TOUR and SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER;
ROMEO AND JULIET at the Piccadilly Theatre; PETER PAN at the Royal Festival
Hall; DASH and THE HOT SHOE SHOW for Wayne Sleep; DAPHNE and TAMBURLAINE
at Opera North; ICE ADVENTURES for Torvill and Dean; ICECAPADES tour of
Canada and LE ICE SHOW at the Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas.
CONCERT events include BACK TO THE EARTH, a mammoth son-et-lumiere for
Isao Tomita on the River Hudson, New York; CLASSICAL SPECTACULAR for Raymond
Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall and arenas and stadia throughout Europe
and Australia; EXPO`92 BRITISH DAY CONCERT for Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber
in Seville; the European tour of ANDREA BOCELLI for Barry Marshall; THE
MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER in the grounds of Woburn Abbey and at St
Paul's Cathedral and a Son et Lumiere at the PYRAMIDS in GIZA which was
nominated for a MIDDLE EASTERN LIGHTING DESIGN AWARD.
TELEVISION broadcasts include the critically acclaimed QUEEN'S GOLDEN
JUBILEE LIGHT AND FIREWORKS EXTRAVAGANZA at Buckingham Palace on the 3rd
of June 2002; the NEW YEAR'S EVE 2004 and 2005 Light and Fireworks show
from the LONDON EYE; the event lighting of THE WALL for Roger Waters in
Berlin 1990, arguably the biggest rock show of the last decade; A CELEBRATION
OF CHRISTMAS from Vienna with Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Natalie
Cole and The HONG KONG HANDOVER CEREMONY on June 30th, 1997.
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER's 50TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION at the Royal Albert Hall;
STANDING STONE at the Royal Albert Hall and WORKING CLASSICAL in Liverpool
for Sir Paul McCartney; THE CLASSICAL BRIT AWARDS 2000 from the Royal
Albert Hall; Opening Ceremonies for the 2005 DUBAI WORLD CUP and the ASPIRE
SPORTS COMPLEX in Doha, Qatar; the Royal Opening of ST PANCRAS HIGH SPEED
RAILWAY STATION and the WINTER OLYMPICS OPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONIES
in Turin 2006.
Durham is a member of The Society of British Theatre Designers, The Society
of Television Lighting Directors, The Association of Lighting Designers
and Equity.
To discover more about Durham’s work visit his website at www.durhamld.com
