Julia Hansen
Set design in Agrippina
Biography
www.juliahansen.net
Career
Freelance set and costume designer for opera, theatre & dance, 2000−now
Highlights
Il Viaggio a Reims (Bern, Oviedo, Tel Aviv, Vlaamse Opera); Guillaume Tell van Gretry (Biel-Solothurn); Albert Herring (Lubeck); La Belle Helène (Opera National du Rhin, Nantes); La Traviata (Bern); Pirame et Thisbe van Rebel en Francoeur (Nantes & Angers; first performance since 1771); Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Bern, Oviedo, Tel Aviv); Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Braunschweig); Rigoletto (Opera National de Lorraine); Werther (Opera National du Rhin); La Bohème (Stadttheater Bern); Platée (Opera National du Rhin); Giasone (Vlaamse Opera); Castor et Pollux (Theater an der Wien); Faust (Opera van Graz); Don Pasquale (Glyndebourne Festival); Der Rosenkavalier (Opéra national du Rhin)
Prizes
First prize, European opera directing competition (EOP), 2001
Winning concept for Fidelio at Wiesbaden for the opening of the Maifestspiele, 2002
Gudrun-Wassermann-Buschan Prize, set en costume design of the Freudenberg Stiftung, Mannheim, 2004
Worked with
Mariame Clément
Recent and future productions
Agrippina (Vlaamse Opera, Oviedo); Die Zauberflöte (Opéra national du Rhin); Le nozze die Figaro (Dortmund); Hänsel und Gretel (Opéra national de Paris); Don Pasquale (Glyndebourne); Il ritorno d'Ulysse in Patria (Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées)
Last update on 13 September 2012
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