Emma Ryott’s designs for opera include: Roméo & Juliette (Malmö Opera, Savonlinna Opera Festival); The Ring Cycle (Longborough Festival Opera, 2019-2024); L’incoronazione di Poppea (Opéra national du Rhin); La bohème (Copenhagen Opera Festival - Best New Opera Production at 2020 Copenhagen Culture Awards); Winterreise, Verdi Requiem (Zürich, Dutch National Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin); The Flying Dutchman, The Damnation of Faust (Deutsche Oper); The Great Gatsby, La Damnation de Faust (Semper Oper); Orphée et Eurydice (Stuttgart); Otello (Salzburg Festival, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma); Mathis der Maler (Theater an der Wien); Manon Lescaut (ENO).
Designs for ballet include: Bovary (Staatsballet Berlin); Lontano, Monteverdi, Little Match Girl, Romeo und Julia, Sonnett (Zürich Ballet); Cassiopeia’s Garden, Lulu eine Monstretragödie, Das Fräulein von S (Stuttgart Ballet); The Seagull, Orlando (Bolshoi Theatre); Anna Karenina (Zürich, Oslo, Munich, Moscow, Korea National Ballet); Wozzeck (Oslo, Zürich); Leonce and Lena (Montreal, Stuttgart); Der Sandmann (Stuttgart, Zürich); Poppea/Poppea film (Arte); Don Q (Theaterhaus Stuttgart); The Return of Ulysses (Royal Ballet Flanders, Edinburgh Festival); Cinderella (Finnish National Ballet).
Designs for theatre include: Young Chekhov: Platonov, Ivanov, The Seagull (National Theatre); The Heart of Robin Hood (RSC/Vesturport in Boston, Toronto, Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Design); Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll (West End, Broadway); Sunset Boulevard (Göteborg Opera).
TV designs include: 2016, 2020 & 2023 New Year’s Concert (Vienna, for ORF). Film designs include: Death of Pentheus, Arhat, Taming the Dragon, Verdi Requiem, Winterreise (Zürich Opera & Ballet).