Ricardo Pardo is a Galician born Spanish production designer trained at London Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and School of Architecture at Madrid Polytechnic University. His opera designs 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 associate designer with director 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). Among others, he collaborated with 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. Golden Mask winner), 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), On the Town (Hyogo Performing Arts Centre Japan), Iolanta (Finnish National Opera) and Suor Angelica / La Mort de Cléopâtre (Erl Festival, Austria). Other collaborations include with director Charlie Edwrads Rigoletto, (Opera North), with designer Alex Lawde The Color Purple The Musical (Birmingham Hippodrome / UK Tour) and Paul Currant and Kevin Knight’s Il Trovatore (Teatro Comunale di Bologna)

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 is currently the associate designer for the opera Manon (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, November 2026). 

Ricardo is a winner of the Philip Lawrence Awards.