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Richard Roberts is an award-winning designer and educator. His body of work spans theatre, ballet, opera, musical theatre, and film, across Australia and internationally.

Richard is currently Head of Design and Production at the Victorian College of the Arts.\\xa0 He has held positions as Head of Design at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Head of Production at The Victorian College of the Arts and Head of Design at The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.

Richard\\u2019s designs for opera include: for Opera Australia,\\xa0Rigoletto, Don Pasquale, The Magic Flute\\xa0and\\xa0Die Fledermaus\\xa0(with West Australian Opera); for Victorian Opera,\\xa0Parsifal, Cunning Little Vixen; Nixon In China, The Magic Flute, Baroque Triple Bill, The Marriage Of Figaro; The Corronation Of Poppea\\xa0and\\xa0Don Giovanni;\\xa0for Opera Queensland,\\xa0Ruddigore;\\xa0and for New Zealand Opera, Seattle Opera, and Philadelphia Opera\\xa0Rigoletto.

For dance, Richard\\u2019s designs include: for Australian Ballet,\\xa0Don Quixote, Requiem, Molto Vivace\\xa0and\\xa0Raymonda; La Sylphide\\xa0and\\xa0La Fille Mal Gardee\\xa0for West Australian Ballet and Queensland Ballet.

For theatre, Richard\\u2019s designs include: for Queensland Theatre,\\xa0Othello, The Sunshine Club, Death Of A Salesman, Noises Off\\xa0(with MTC),\\xa0Much Ado About Nothing, Tartuffe\\xa0and\\xa0Managing Carmen\\xa0(with Black Swan); for Ensemble Theatre,\\xa0Black Cockatoo; for TML,\\xa0Fiddler On The Roof; for Melbourne and Sydney Festivals,\\xa0The Season\\xa0national tour; for Melbourne Theatre Company,\\xa0Last Man Standing, Solomon And Marion, Next To Normal, The Gift\\xa0and\\xa0Frost/Nixon, Macbeth, Dreams in an Empty City, As You Like It, Hedda Gabler, The Sapphires, All My Sons;\\xa0for Sydney Theatre Company,\\xa0Australia Day(with MTC),\\xa0True West, Riflemind; for Black Swan,\\xa0The Caucasian Chalk Circle\\xa0and\\xa0Glengarry Glen Ross;\\xa0for Belvoir,\\xa0The Sapphires\\xa0(with Black Swan).

For screen, Richard\\u2019s work includes production design for George Ogilvie\\u2019s\\xa0The Battlers\\xa0for the Seven Network, the 12-part series\\xa0Five Times Dizzy\\xa0for SBS and\\xa0I Own The Racecourse\\xa0for Barron Films.

Richard has designed the Operatic adaptation of Jane Harrison\\u2019s\\xa0The Visitors\\xa0for Victorian Opera, currently playing The Arts Centre in Melbourne. For Opera Australia\\u2019s Summer season he is Design Consultant for the Mozart Opera\\u2019s\\xa0Idomeneo\\xa0and\\xa0The Magic Flute.

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