Biography

Adam Larsen is a documentary filmmaker and designer for live performance. Designs for the San Francisco Symphony include Le martyre de Saint Sébastien, Peer Gynt, Peter Grimes, On the Town, Das klagende Lied, Michael Tilson Thomas’s Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind, and most recently Boris Godunov. Mr. Larsen is also Resident Projection Designer for SoundBox. Other works include Hal Prince’s LoveMusik on Broadway; Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking The Waves at Opera Philadelphia and Prototype; Lee Breuer’s The Gospel at Colonus at the Athens, Edinburgh, and Spoleto festivals; Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle at the Singapore and Edinburgh festivals; Kaija Saariaho’s Maa with Atlanta Symphony; Janáček’s From the House of the Dead at Canadian Opera; The Pelleas Project at the Cincinnati Symphony; Jonathan Dove’s Siren Song, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann at Hawaii Opera Theatre; John Adams’s A Flowering Tree and Handel’s Agrippina at Opera Omaha; Handel’s Semele with Pacific Musicworks; Cage’s Second Hand and Foss’s Phorion with New World Symphony; Dove’s Flight at Juilliard; Bora Yoon’s Sunken Cathedral at Prototype; and Mascagni’s Iris at Bard Summerscape. Mr. Larsen’s documentary about autism entitled Neurotypical aired on the PBS series POV.

(February 2019)