Dick Bird designs sets and costumes for theatre, opera and ballet. Work includes Hamlet at the Comedie Francaise, La Donna del Lago at the Royal Opera House, Aladdin for Birmingham Royal Ballet, La Bayadere for K-Ballet Tokyo and The Pearl Fishers for The Metropolitan Opera in New York. and English National Opera . In 2014 he designed the sets for Kate Bush's Before the Dawn at Hammersmith Apollo, and The Hudsucker Proxy won the UK Theatre Awards Best Design 2015. In 2017 he designed Birmingham Royal Ballet's new production of Sir Peter Wright's Nutcracker at the Royal Albert Hall, and recent work includes Street Scene at the Teatro Real, Madrid, Nixon in China at the Royal Danish Opera, Otello at the Vienna State Opera, Falstaff for the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, and a new Giselle for the National Ballet of Japan. For his designs for English National Ballet's new Nutcracker, which opened at the London Coliseum in December 2024, he has been nominated for Outstanding Creative Contribution in the 2025 National Dance Awards. The National Ballet of Japan's Giselle can be seen at the Royal Opera House in London in July 2025. Please click on a picture below to see more images of the production