Quebec native Claude Girard began his design career in 1967 at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. He has since designed sets, costumes and lighting for productions including Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La Cenerentola, Romeo and Juliet, Norma, La Bohème, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, and Madame Butterfly, among many others, for Opéra de Montréal, Opéra de Nancy in France, Liège, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle, Tulsa, Detroit, Dayton, Louisville, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver. His sets last appeared at MOT for the 2010 production of La Bohème.