Dick Bird designs sets and costumes for theatre, opera and ballet.
Designs for opera include Otello (Vienna Staatsoper), Falstaff (Teatro La Fenice), Nixon in China (Scottish Opera/Royal Danish Opera] Street Scene (Teatro Real, Madrid), The Pearl Fishers (Metropolitan Opera New York/English National Opera), La Donna del Lago (Royal Opera House, London), Beatrice et Benedict (L’Opéra Comique, Paris), The Mikado and The Gondoliers (Scottish Opera), Nabucco (Opera National de Lorraine), Cosí fan tutte (Garsington Opera), House of the Dead (Opera North), Snegurochka (Wexford Festival Opera), The Gambler (Opera Zuid) and Das Portrait (Bregenz Festival). Ballets include The Nutcracker (Birmingham Royal Ballet), Giselle, Aladdin and The Firebird (National Ballet of Japan), Dragon Quest (Star Dancers Ballet, Tokyo) La Bayadère (K Ballet Tokyo), The Comedy of Errors (Sarasota Ballet) and The Canterville Ghost (English National Ballet). For theatre he has designed Hamlet and La Grande Magie (Comédie Francaise), 12th Night and The Tempest (Teater Polski), Lear (The Crucible) Othello and As You Like It (The Globe). For Kate Bush, he designed the Before the Dawn concerts at the Apollo in 2014.