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Tal Rosner is a BAFTA-winning video artist known for crafting striking visual worlds for concerts, theatres, museums, and events worldwide. His work has been seen with major orchestras and bands, theatre and dance companies, and fashion brands and curators.

Most recently, he collaborated with composer David Lang and Bang on a Can All-Stars on before and after nature, with director Tom Morris on a semi-stage performance of Mahler’s 8th Symphony at the Southbank Centre, and with San Francisco Opera to create their inaugural Pride Concert.

In 2021 Rosner conceived MYTHOS for Staatsoper Hannover—an evening devoted to Sibelius’ Tone Poems that integrated video and lighting in a fully staged performance streamed worldwide. In 2020 he created a new video interpretation of Scriabin’s Prometheus, The Poem of Fire for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s 125th anniversary. Previous highlights include installations for Steve Reich’s Tehillim (Barbican Centre, 2017), Olga Neuwirth’s Disenchanted Island (IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, 2017), and Lament, co-created with Christopher Mayo for Nuit Blanche Toronto (2018).

Rosner’s orchestral collaborations also include Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Foreign Bodies for the New York Philharmonic (2018), Britten’s Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia for the New World Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, LA Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra (2013–16), and In Seven Days, his collaboration with Thomas Adès, first commissioned by the Southbank Centre and Los Angeles Philharmonic (2008) and later performed with major orchestras across Europe and the US.

In theatre, Rosner was video designer on the Hunger Games on Stage (dir. Matthew Dunster), which premiered in 2025. His other work includes video design for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Ainadamar (dir. Deborah Colker) for Scottish Opera, Detroit Opera, Welsh National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, and the West End transfer of Next to Normal (dir. Mike Longhurst). Earlier projects include Brothers Lionheart for the Royal Danish Playhouse (2019–23), Wagner’s Die Walküre for Opéra National de Bordeaux (co-directed with Julia Burbach), Shopping and F**ing* (Lyric Hammersmith), 8 Minutes (Sadler’s Wells), and work for the National Theatre, Royal Court, Charlotte Ballet and the Royal Ballet.

Rosner’s brand collaborations include video design for the V&A’s blockbuster exhibition DIVA (2023–24), creative direction for Louis Vuitton’s Time Capsule and LVX, The Pet Shop Boys’ Super Tour, and the Rolling Stones’ No Filter tour. He also directed video for Marni’s global MARNIFESTO (SS21) and collaborated with Telfar for Paris Fashion Week and Pitti Uomo.

Rosner won the 2008 BAFTA for Best Title Sequence for Skins. Born in Jerusalem, he now lives and works in London.