ROSEFELDT: WHEN WE ARE GONE, EUPHORIA
Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte, Saarbrücken – Dec 2022
ROSEFELDT: EUPHORIA
Park Avenue Armory, NYC – Nov 2022
ADAMS: EL NIÑO
Cleveland Orchestra – Nov 2022
LA PHIL: MEXICO CITY TOUR
Los Angeles Philharmonic – Oct 2022
NY PHIL GEFFEN HALL REOPENING
New York Philharmonic, NYC – Oct 2022
SOREY: MONOCHROMATIC LIGHT
Park Avenue Armory, NYC – (resident designer) Sept 2022
ADAMS: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
San Francisco Opera – Sept 2022
OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL: AMOC
Ojai Music Festival, CA – June 2022
HAMLET
Park Avenue Armory, NYC – (resident designer) May 2022
ADAMS: EL NIÑO
Cincinnati Symphony – May 2022
FANTASIA
New York Philharmonic – April 2022
ANDRIESSEN: DE STAAT
Los Angeles Philharmonic – April 2022
VAN DER AA: UPLOAD
Park Avenue Armory, NYC – (resident designer) March 2022
NEWSOME: ASSEMBLY
Park Avenue Armory, NYC – Feb 2022
SHORTER/SPALDING: IPHIGENIA
Kennedy Center, DC – Dec 2021
WEEMS: THE SHAPE OF THINGS
Park Avenue Armory, NYC – Dec 2021
SHORTER/SPALDING: IPHIGENIA
Arts Emerson, Boston – Dec 2021
PARK AVENUE ARMORY: GALA 2021
Park Avenue Armory, NYC – Oct 2021
ADAMS: LYRA
The Living Earth Show – Oct 2021
BILL T JONES: DEEP BLUE SEA
Park Avenue Armory, NYC – Sept 2021
OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL 2021
Ojai Music Festival – Sept 2021
TESORI: BLUE
Detroit Opera – Aug 2021
CORIGLIANO: THE LORD OF CRIES
Santa Fe Opera – July 2021
BILL T JONES: AFTERWARDSNESS
Park Avenue Armory, NYC – May 2021
ANDERSON: PARTY IN THE BARDO
Park Avenue Armory, NYC – May 2021
SOCIAL! THE SOCIAL DISTANCE DANCE CLUB
Park Avenue Armory, NYC – May 2021
WAGNER: TWILIGHT GODS
Michigan Opera Theater – Oct 2020
Lyric Opera of Chicago – April 2021
THOMSON: THE MOTHER OF US ALL
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC – Jan 2020
WOLFE: FLOWER POWER
The Los Angeles Philharmonic – Jan 2020
JUDGEMENT DAY
Park Avenue Armory, NYC – (resident designer) Dec 2019
VERDI: REQUIEM
The Shed – Nov 2019
BLACK ARTISTS RETREAT
Park Avenue Armory – Oct 2019
ANTIGONE
Park Avenue Armory – (resident designer) Sept 2019
STEYERL: DRILL
Park Avenue Armory – (resident designer) June 2019
MONK: ATLAS
The Los Angeles Philharmonic – June 2019
LANG: PRISONER OF THE STATE
The New York Philharmonic – June 2019
GOEBBELS: EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AND WOULD HAPPEN
Park Avenue Armory – (resident designer) June 2019
WEST SIDE STORY
Chicago Lyric – May 2019
WOLFE: FIRE IN MY MOUTH
The New York Philharmonic – Jan 2019
EL NIÑO
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin – December 2018
THE HEAD AND THE LOAD
MassMOCA – May 2018
Tate Modern, London – July 2018
Ruhr Festival, Germany – August 2018
Park Avenue Armory – December 2018
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE OTHER MARY
Roma Europa Festival – November 2018
THE SIX BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS
Park Avenue Armory – (resident designer) October 2018
DOCTOR ATOMIC
Santa Fe Opera – July/August 2018
THE DAMNED
Park Avenue Armory – (resident designer) July 2018
BERNSTEIN MASS
Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart Festival – July 2018
YERMA
Park Avenue Armory – (resident designer) March/April 2018
TRIP TO THE MOON
Los Angeles Philharmonic – March 2018
BERNSTEIN MASS
Los Angeles Philharmonic – February 2018
RÉPONS
Park Avenue Armory – (resident designer) October 2017
BLANK OUT
Park Avenue Armory – (resident designer) September 2017
ANGELS IN AMERICA
New York City Opera – June 2017
MY FAIR LADY
Lyric Opera Chicago – May 2017
CHICAGO VOICES
Lyric Opera Chicago – February 2017
L’AMOUR DE LOIN
by Kaija Saariaho
The Met Opera – December 2016
Met to Stage Its First Opera by a Woman Since 1903, The New York Times, 2/17/16
CIRCLE MAP
New York Philharmonic at The Park Avenue Armory
Festival of Kaija Saariaho’s Music – October 2016
THE KING & I
Lyric Opera Chicago – April 2016
CAROUSEL
Lyric Opera of Chicago – April/May 2015
AVAILABLE LIGHT
Lucinda Childs, one of the most celebrated choreographers of the modern era, revives her seminal 1983 collaboration with composer John Adams and architect Frank Gehry
Previews at MassMOCA, North Adams, MA / March 2015
Premiere: Walt Disney Concert Hall, June 2015
Toured worldwide
EL PASADO
Lyric Opera of Chicago – March 2015
IOLANTA / BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE
Met Opera – January 2015 and HD simulcasts
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Nadja Michael, Mikhail Petrenko and others
THE MERRY WIDOW
Met Opera – December 2014, New Year’s Eve Gala and HD simulcasts
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor
Starring Renée Fleming, Nathan Gunn, Kelli O’Hara, Alek Shrader, Thomas Allen and others
ST. MATTHEW PASSION
Park Avenue Armory, NYC – October 2014
Berliner Philharmoniker/Simon Rattle/Peter Sellars
THE PASSENGER
Houston Grand Opera at the Park Avenue Armory – July 2014
Notes on camp, Parterre.com, 7/12/14
Houston Grand Opera delivers powerful experience with “The Passenger”, New York Classical Review, 7/11/14
“Breedt, Moore and Kaduce have full, shining voices. They sang with excellent articulation and beautiful sound.”
What Lies Beneath: A Haunting Nazi Past, The New York Times, 7/11/14
The Grand Illusion, The Greater Horror, ConcertoNet.com
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Lyric Opera of Chicago – April 2014
The Sound Of Music Is Alive At Lyric Opera, The Chicagoist, 4/29/14
Sumptuous Sights and Sounds Make “The Sound of Music” Thrilling at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Broadway World, 4/28/14
“Bruni, Fisher and Yeargan have executed an opera-house version of the show (with impeccable sound design by Mark Grey)…”
This is ‘Sound of Music’ on a grand scale, with a lovely Maria, Chicago Tribune, 4/28/14
A glorius new production of The Sound of Music by the Lyric Opera, Chicago Now, 4/28/14
Sound of Music Review – The Lyric Opera of Chicago Production is Brilliant, LA Splash Magazine, 4/28/14
‘Sound of Music’ at Lyric: When opera meets B’way, the hills come alive – and hearts, too, Chicago on the Aisle, 4/28/14
OFFBEAT: Chicago Lyric’s ‘Sound of Music’ an oppulent ovation, NWI Times, 4/28/14
“The flowing costume designs by Alejo Vietti in her Lyric debut paired with lighting design by Duane Schuler and sound design by Mark Grey complete this feast for the eyes and ears.”
Supersized Sound of Music perfect for Chicago families, Chicago Parent, 4/28/14
Opera Review: Lyric’s “The Sound Of Music”, BTSCELEBS, 4/27/14
OKLAHOMA!
Lyric Opera of Chicago – May 2013
Review: Grand staging for ‘Oklahoma’ in the hands of Lyric Opera, Chicago Tribune, 5/5/13
Lyric Opera of Chicago is getting miked for Oklahoma!, ChicagoReader.com, 5/2/13
“…The kudos should go to sound designer and composer Mark Grey, the whiz behind the technology. Longtime soundman for composer John Adams (and many others), Grey is the guy who made Lyric shake for Doctor Atomic. His own composing commissions include a soon-to-be-written opera version of Frankenstein, which maybe we’ll get to see at Lyric someday.
Grey says amplified sound tends to be “two-dimensional,” while the sound of a traditional opera is wider, broader, and, at the same time, more intimate. But even for opera, he adds, the way we listen is changing. Things like the Metropolitan Opera simulcasts to movie theaters are delivering sound that’s different from what’s being heard in the opera house; younger audiences are accustomed to the clarity of digital; and contemporary composers are incorporating the vast, electronic soundscape.
“I think technology will play a huge part on the opera stage. We’re at the forefront,” Grey says. “But in a case like Oklahoma!, we want to keep it as natural as possible.”
SHOW BOAT
Houston Grand Opera – January 2013
SHOW BOAT
Lyric Opera of Chicago
The curtain will rise on a richly detailed vision of that bygone era when Show Boat docks for the first time at Lyric. The sumptuous new production, staged by Francesca Zambello and conducted by John DeMain, promises to delight your eyes and ears. The sensational cast includes Broadway star Ashley Brown; Lyric favorite Nathan Gunn; three more operatic luminaries – Alyson Cambridge, Morris Robinson, and Angela Renée Simpson; and some of Chicago’s most gifted actors.
For Zambello, musical theater is American opera. “With it we have forged something as popular as opera was in the 19th century. Opera and musical theater can live harmoniously in our American theater and opera-house landscape. Show Boat gives us a rich study in opera, operetta, vaudeville, and musical comedy, but – equally important – a compelling American story of social and political importance.
OTHELLO
Evoking the past pioneers of electronic music, musique concrete, and music of the avant-garde, Mark Grey created a dramatic new sonic score and design for Peter Sellars’ markedly innovative production of Shakespeare’s Othello, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman (Iago) and John Ortiz (Othello). His all-electronic “symphonie mecanique” score for Othello uses an elaborate surround-sound environment to transport theatre audiences through colorful and complex sonic worlds into the haunting world of Shakespeare’s timeless tale of jealousy and betrayal. The work premiered at the Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, Austria) in June 2009, then proceeded to the K15 Festival in Bochum, Germany. Othello was also staged from Sept. 12-Oct. 4, 2009, at the Public Theater in New York City.
Videos: Othello in the Age of Obama Pt 1 | Othello in the Age of Obama Pt 2 | Philip Seymour Hoffman interview
Alban Berg’s LULU
Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria – June 2010