British director Andrew Sinclair has staged numerous productions at the Royal Opera Covent Garden since 1986. He directed a semi-staging of Der Ring des Nibelungen at Royal Albert Hall and made his Italian debut with Verdi’s I masnadieri at Teatro Comunale of Bologna. Mr. Sinclair debuted in the U.S. at San Diego Opera in 2001 with Lohengrin, followed by Zandra Rhodes’ Pearl Fishers in 2004, which was successfully revived for a number of companies including Michigan Opera Theatre. In 2011, he made a very successful debut at Lyric Opera of Chicago with Lohengrin.