Lighting designer Mark McCullough made his San Francisco Opera debut with Luisa Miller (2000) and has returned for numerous productions, including Arshak II, The Mother of Us All, Rigoletto, Das Rheingold, Porgy and Bess, and Die Walküre. He has designed lighting for the Metropolitan Opera; Milan’s La Scala; Madrid’s Teatro Real; the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Rhine Opera; Opera North; Washington National Opera; Lyric Opera of Chicago; Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; the Dallas Opera; Opéra de Montréal; Grand Théâtre de Genève; New York City Opera; Seattle Opera; and the Royal Shakespeare Company, among others. His creations have also been seen on Broadway and in regional theater companies nationwide.