Francisco Negrin

AIMAG 2017 Opening ceremony, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Photo by Francisco Negrin

AIMAG 2017 Opening ceremony, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Photo by Francisco Negrin

In 2021 Negrin wrote and directed a new production for Holiday on Ice: “A New Day”. The tour was stopped by COVID lockdowns and postponed to 2022.[7]

In 2020 Francisco Negrin directed the tableau vivant for Louis Vuitton’s Paris fashion week autumn/winter womenswear show.[8]

Francisco Negrin has been a creative consultant for Balich Worldwide Shows, for whom he has conceived stadium, arena and other commercial events and shows.

In 2019 Negrin conceived, wrote and directed the opening ceremony of the Lima Panamerican Games[9] and was the creative supervisor for the closing and also for the Parapan American Games ceremonies. These ceremonies had a huge impact in the country.[10]

In 2017 Francisco Negrin conceived and directed the shows for the Dubai World Cup at the Meydan Rececourse. The shows took place in a performance area 1 kilometer wide with a 100 meter wide LED screen and 87 drones.

He also conceived and directed the opening ceremony of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. A massive stadium show involving more than 6000 performers.

He also wrote and directed the 2014 and 2015 Intimissimi On Ice shows at the Roman arena in Verona which featured opera singers, skating champions such as Stéphane Lambiel and Carolina Kostner and pop stars Pharrell Williams, Anastacia and Ellie Goulding.

Negrin worked with the rock band OK Go, conceiving the staging for a performance at London's The Roundhouse, using an installation by architect Ron Arad called "Curtain Call".[11] But the show was cancelled before opening.

In 2002, Francisco Negrin was a member of the board for London-based contemporary dance company Walker Dance.

Negrin collaborated with choreographer Fin Walker, composer Ben Park and film animator Damian Gascoigne on a site-specific performance called Two Stations, at the Queen Elisabeth Hall in London, commissioned by the Southbank Centre's Great Outdoors festival in 1994.

Negrin did the editing and visual effects for the music video of the song "Slow Me" for singer Mudibu, directed by Dean Loxton.

Negrin has given several master classes for opera singers, aiming to develop their acting skills. A series of master classes was devised by Negrin for the Royal Danish Opera Academy in Copenhagen in which the emphasis was on the whole process of conceiving and putting on a show, with participating singers having to write, stage, light and perform their own mini-operas or plays.

Francisco Negrin has worked in close collaboration with several design teams including:

• Set and costume designers: Louis Desiré, Es Devlin, Rifail Ajdarpasic and Ariane Isabell Unfried, Nigel Lowery, John Conklin, Paul Steinberg, Anthony Baker, Jonathan Morell, Carol Bailey, Allen Moyer, Tobias Hoheisel, Paco Azorín, Stufish, Gioforma, Thanassis Demiris, Palle Steen Christensen, Pepe Corzo and Carl Fillon.
• Lighting designers: Bruno Poet, Wolfgang Goebbel, Allen Hahn, Frank Evin, Davy Cunningham, Duane Schuler, Joan Sullivan, Robert Wierzel, Heather Carson, Jennifer Tipton, Mikki Kunttu, Durham Marenghi and Adam Bassett.
• Choreographers: Fin Walker, Ana Yepes, Thomas MacManus, Nathan Clarke, Ran Arthur Braun, Dimitra Kritikidi and Vania Masías Málaga.
• Video artists: Joan Rodón, Luke Halls and Charles Darby

The following productions have been broadcast on TV: Venus, Les contes d'Hoffman, Una cosa rara (Drottninholm version), Una cosa rara (Valencia version) and Intimissimi on ice 2014 and 2105 were both broadcast in Italy and Spain.

The following productions have been released on DVD: I puritani (DVD and Blu-ray),[12] L'arbore di Diana,[13] Giulio Cesare (Sydney version),[14] Giulio Cesare (Copenhagen version),[15] Partenope (Copenhagen version),[16] Norma (Barcelona version)[17] and Il Trovatore (Macerata version).[18]