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Peter Crompton
Peter
Crompton is the set designer for Der
fliegende Holländer.
He saw his first opera at the age of ten, but had to wait until 1990
before he was allowed to design and paint one. His previous designs for
West Bay Opera
include The Queen of Spades, Manon
Lescaut, The Threepenny
Opera, Don
Giovanni, La
Périchole, The
Marriage of Figaro, La
traviata, The
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The
Italian Girl in Algiers, Il
trovatore, The
Magic Flute, Suor
Angelica, Gianni
Schicchi, Lucia
di Lammermoor,
and Pagliacci.
Mr. Crompton has designed for Festival Opera, Opera San José, Diablo Light Opera Company, Lamplighters, Bay Area Revels, Marin Theatre Company, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Summer Repertory Theatre in Santa Rosa, Western Ballet, Jarvis Conservatory, University of Santa Clara, Santa Barbara Grand Opera, Berkeley Opera, Sonoma City Opera, and San Francisco Camerata, among others. He has won Bay Area Critic’s Choice, Shellies, and Goodman Choice awards. Recent productions include Ruddigore for Lamplighters and Urinetown for Diablo Light Opera
Mr. Crompton resides in Santa Rosa, where he teaches set design at Santa Rosa Junior College, and tends an increasingly bizarre sculpture garden with his wife Robyn. The garden is open every October for ARTrails.
