Ricardo Pardo is a Spanish production spatial and environmental designer. Productions include Roméo et Juliette (Ingolstadt, Germany), Unborn in America (Vaults Festival, London), The Marriage of Figaro (King’s Head Theatre, London), and The Medium (Cochrane Theatre, London).

As an associate designer for director/designer Antony McDonald, his credits include Hansel and Gretel (Royal Ballet and Opera / San Francisco Opera), Tristan und Isolde (Opéra National du Rhin), Phaedra / The Minotaur (Ustinov Studio, Bath), Julietta (English National Opera), and Alice (Croatian National Ballet). He has also collaborated with and assisted Antony on productions such as Alcina and Kátya Kabanová (Royal Opera House, both winners of Olivier Awards), Wozzeck (New National Theatre, Tokyo), L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (Bolshoi Theatre), Le Nozze di Figaro (La Scala, Milan), 4/4 – Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (Royal Ballet and Opera / Irish National Opera), Lohengrin (Greek National Opera), Powder Her Face (Irish National Opera), The Importance of Being Earnest (Northern Ireland Opera), Fiddler on the Roof (Grange Park Opera), Raymonda (English National Ballet), and On the Town (Hyogo Performing Arts Centre Japan).

Ricardo has also designed for theatre and dance, including Suddenly Last Summer (Adam Mickiewicz Theatre, Poland), 9 Minutes (Jacksons Lane Theatre, London), Richard III (Courtyard Theatre), Mwana (TRON and Traverse Theatre, Scotland), Spring Time (TRON Theatre, Glasgow), Mr. Boom (Greenwich Dance, London), The Knight and the Crescent Hare (TRON / Traverse, Glasgow / Edinburgh), JukeBox (TRON Theatre, Glasgow), and Old Bags (Wimbledon Theatre, London).

He has worked with designers such as Miriam Buether, Kevin Knight, Bruce French, Paul Wills, Anna Fleischle, and Rebeca Brower.

He is currently the associate designer for the opera Manon (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, November 2026) and is collaborating with Antony McDonald on productions including Iolanta (Finnish National Opera, May 2026) and Suor Angelica / La Mort de Cléopâtre (Erl Festival, Austria, July 2026). He is a winner of the Philip Lawrence Awards.