In the late eighties I had the pleasure of working with Giles Havergal at the Citizen’s Theatre and Welsh National Opera and Philip Prowse at Opera North in Leeds. The first performance with Philip was Tamburlaine which he directed and…
In 2014 I was invited to light the Paralympic opening and closing ceremonies in Sochi with a rig inherited from the mighty Al Gurdon who had designed the Olympic Ceremonies a few weeks earlier. Once again we turned out the…
As we reach the eleventh week of this digest and work, at least in the virtual world of presenting future concepts, seems to be slowly emerging from the chrysalis of the pandemic lock down I have a few final short…
Today my Grandson fell off his chair and I could not catch him. At four pm each and every day I go on Skype to read, a story to my Grandson, who’s four; it fills a heartfelt need.…
Durham Marenghi was awarded Best Global Lighting Design Specialist 2019 at the Lux Life Magazine Design Awards in recognition of his Award winning work in the lighting design of events and architectural projects around the World. Alongside lighting events such…
For thirty years, Durham Marenghi has been lighting Raymond Gubbay’s Classical Spectacular show. His designs for this production have enthralled audiences at the Royal Albert Hall for decades as he describes, “Classical Spectacular has developed from an all Parcan rig…
Durham Marenghi has been appointed by CC2016 as Lighting Designer for the RIO 2016 Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Supporting Durham will be Brazilian Associate LD Joyce Drummond, UK programmers Andy Voller and Ross Williams, Brazilian programmer Paulinho Lebrao, TV…
Durham and his colleagues, who created the award winning Diamond Jubilee Concert, met Her Majesty the Queen at a reception at Buckingham Palace. Durham also presented Prince Philip with his book about the making of the concert (ISBN: 9781904031673) as the…