ROMAIN DE LAGARDE studied at ENSATT in Lyon and has been working as a lighting designer for theatre and opera since 2002. He assisted Maryse Gautier in productions such as Così fan tutte at the Opéra de Dijon, La strada at the ballet of the Opéra national du Rhin as well as in works by choreographer Fabrice Ramalingom. Assistantships with Joël Hourbeight took him to the Opéra de Toulon, the Théâtre à la Colline in Paris and back to Strasbourg. He has created his own lighting designs for the ENSATT, the Nouveau Téâtre in Lyon, the Théâtre Montfort in Paris and the Scène nationale de Besançon, among others. In the field of opera, he created lighting designs for Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice, Haydn’s Il mondo della luna and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Theâtre Mouffetard in Paris.