Benoit Dugardyn, set designer, was born in Belgium. He has designed numerous opera productions including La traviata, Un ballo in maschera, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, Otello (Verdi), Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena, L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti), Der Rosenkavalier, Salome (R. Strauss), Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni), Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), La Cenerentola (Rossini), Lakme (Delibes), Ariodante (Handel), The Bartered Bride (Smetana), Der Ring des Nibelungen (Wagner), La clemenza di Tito, Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) and many others. He works at the opera houses of Toronto, Magdeburg, Santa Fe, Moscow, Houston, Washington, Geneva, Vienna, Buenos Aires, Bonn, Metz, Glyndebourne, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, San Diego, Strasbourg, Antwerp, Dallas and many others.

His works at the Israeli Opera include:

Werther (2018)

Il trovatore (2007)