Duane Schuler

Lighting designer Duane Schuler’s work encompasses opera, ballet, and theater internationally.

Mr. Schuler’s designs for New York’s Metropolitan Opera include, Pelléas et Mélisande Samson et Dalila, Thais, Fidelio, Otello, Andrea Chénier, The Great Gatsby and The First Emperor. Other credits include over 225 productions for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Fidelio, Cendrillon and Robert le diable (Royal Opera House/Covent Garden) Manon (Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin) Dead Man Walking, (Semperoper) Benvenuto Cellini, Elektra, and Fidelio (Salzburg Festival). La Rondine, Ariadne auf Naxos, Der fliegende Holländer, Faust and Otello (San Francisco Opera); Der Rosenkavalier (Deutsche Oper Berlin); Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde (Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu); Manon, Tosca,and Don Carlo, (Los Angeles Opera); Turandot, Die Bassariden, Tannhauser and La Fanciulla del West (De Nederlandse Opera); Lohengrin (Baden-Baden, La Scala) Mazeppa, Pique Dame, Eugene Onegin, Lulu (Opera de Lyon) and Alceste, Cendrillon and The Letter (Santa Fe Opera).

Theater credits include, House and Garden, Last Dance, A Picasso (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Royal Family (Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles), and The Importance of Being Earnest on Broadway.

Mr. Schuler’s ballet credits include Swan Lake, The Snow Maiden, and Of Love and Rage (American Ballet Theatre); Coppélia  and The Nutcracker (Houston Ballet); The Sleeping Beauty (Stuttgart Ballet); and Giselle (Berlin’s Deutsche Oper Ballet).

Mr. Schuler is also a founding partner of Schuler Shook, the theater planning, lighting design and audio video design firm (Chicago, Minneapolis, Dallas, San Francisco Bay, New York, Melbourne), which has been responsible for numerous theatre designs and renovations including those for Seattle’s Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Hamer Hall in Melbourne and the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York.