[1][2] Fitch is the co-founder of the theatre and entertainment company Giants Are Small, together with Swiss producer and filmmaker Edouard Getaz, and multimedia entrepreneur Frederic Gumy.
[6][7][8] Fitch has collaborated with James Levine, Alan Gilbert, Leonard Slatkin, Peter Sellars, Robert Wilson, Karole Armitage, Joshua Bell, and other artists.
He also collaborated with director Peter Sellars on several theatrical enterprises, including a puppet version of Wagner's Ring cycle in the streets of Denver Colorado.
For another Sellars project – a well-known production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, staged in the Adams House Swimming Pool at Harvard, Fitch played the part of the Clown.
Fitch continued to design private residences and in 1989, he also co-founded Ooloo, a company specializing in one-of-a-kind art furniture that he made with artisans in the Philippines.
[9] A chance meeting with Mimi Oka led to the creation of Orphicorps and a series of Orphic Feasts that eventually culminated in a French-English bilingual book called Orphic Fodder[19][20][21][22] Upon his return to the US Fitch moved to New York, where together with Oka, he created two major events with the Asia Society, the Edible Still Life in Clay and Good Taste in Art.
[27][2] Fitch's first collaboration with conductor Alan Gilbert was Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival soon followed by Das Rheingold at the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.
[6] In the summer of 2006, Fitch directed and designed the sets for the American premiere of Elliott Carter's only opera, What Next?, conducted by James Levine, at Tanglewood.
[31] After two years of experimental development, Fitch, Getaz, and multimedia entrepreneur Frederic Gumy co-founded the theatre and entertainment company Giants Are Small.
A prequel extended the original story to an hour-long adventure, situated in contemporary Los Angeles, which was underscored by excerpts from a number of other symphonic works.
[7] In 2010, Giants Are Small created a production of György Ligeti's absurdist opera Le Grand Macabre with the New York Philharmonic, directed by Doug Fitch (who also designed the set), conducted by Alan Gilbert and produced by Edouard Getaz.
The production featured a cast that included Eric Owens, Melissa Parks, Barbara Hannigan, Anthony Roth Costanzo, and Mark Schowalter.
[32][33][34] In 2011, Giants Are Small and the New York Philharmonic paired again to present a new production of Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen, directed by Fitch (who also designed the costumes and co-designed the set with Skip Mercier), conducted by Gilbert, and produced by Getaz.
The show was choreographed by Karole Armitage and featured a large cast, including Isabel Bayrakdarian, Alan Opie, Melissa Parks, and the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus.