Armstrong The Lady from the Sea Scottish Opera, August 2012 Director Harry Fehr Video Finn Ross Lighting Warren Letton

The production won a Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Award for its premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival.

Reviews 

Designer Yannis Thavoris and video designer Finn Ross give the production a filmic intensity... Hitchockian edginess... (The Independent)

... a first-rate production... elegantly designed... (Telegraph)

Harry Fehr's production, in Yannis Thavoris's elegant period designs, looks handsome, making neat uses of video projections of a dark, roiling sea. (Guardian)

... filmic solutions are fundamental to the joint visual input of director Harry Fehr and designer Yannis Thavoris, whose uncluttered treatment of the quick-fire episodical structure is strikingly deepened by evocative watery projections. (Scotsman)

Visually this is a beautifully designed and directed production, focusing on a pure clarity of sound, light and film projection. The entire stage becomes a film screen as shimmering grey-blue waves flow over floor, ceiling and walls, almost immersed in water like a tank. (EdinburghGuide.com)

Yannis Thavoris and Finn Ross’s beautiful design gives the opera a filmic, mesmeric force, the lush digital imagery of the cascading sea abounding, foretelling the ominous arrival in its midst, as well as our heroine’s increasingly troubled mind. (The Arts Journal)

... Yannis Thavoris’s set looks ravishing. (The Stage)

... it is the sense of light and space in the design... that lingers in the mind. (OperaScotland.org)

... designer Yannis Thavoris’s beautiful sets, strikingly lit, have an appropriately Scandinavian elegance and simplicity. (FestMag.com)