Frédéric Pineau dedicates most of his time to scenery and costume design for the Opera as well as theatre and musical comedies, in a style that is very much his own, inspired by the work of a wide range of artists from Erté to Cecil Beaton, as well as by the multicoloured world of Walt Disney..

For every one of his designs, he seizes upon the very essence of the work, in order to create a visual feast that captures its heart. This may be the extravagant pomp to be found in “The Arabian Nights Tales” (Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Turandot, La Reine de Saba, Polyeucte...), swirls of gothic fog (Lucie de Lammermoor, Elephant Man...), a refined sobriety (Parsifal, Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana, Dialogues des Carmélites, Salomé...), or a larger than life Baroque (Madame l’Archiduc, La Dame Blanche, La Clemenza di Tito, La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein...).

Between operas designed for Paris, Toulouse, Palermo, Venice, Hanoï or Cairo, he has designed the scenery for show at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas (Winds Of The Gods) as well as other show in the United States (Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha...), he also designed the aquatic show by Muriel Hermine in Disneyland Paris (Crescend’O), the creatures in a cybernetic opera (The Wings of Daedalus), not forgetting set and costume designs for straight plays (Les caprices de Marianne, A Flea in her Ear...).

He is proud to have put his name to costumes designs for many artists he admires : Régine Crespin, Amanda Lear, Gladys Knight, Yma Sumac, Juliette Gréco, Debbie Reynolds, Jin Xing and also for Jeanne Moreau for his role in Marguerite Yourcenar’s play (L’Œuvre au Noir).

Since it’s very beginnings, he has been deeply involved in the Festival Massenet in Saint-Etienne, France (Cléopâtre, Panurge, Thaïs, Le Roi de Lahore, Roma, Hérodiade, Werther, Sapho, Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame, Ariane, Manon...).

His gouache paintings have led to many exhibitions in Paris and abroad.