Biography
Was born in Bucharest where she studied at the Beaux Arts Institute. She now lives in London and works extensively in opera.
Her set and costume designs include:
Dargomyzhsky’s The Stone Guest (English National Opera, director Keith Warner, 1987)
Falstaff (English National Opera, director David Pountney, 1989)
Pelleas and Melisande (English National Opera, director David Pountney, 1990)
Carmen (Minnesota Opera USA, director Keith Warner, 1991)
Picker’s Therese Raquin (world premiere, Dallas Opera, director Francesca Zambello, 2001)
Among her recent costume designs are:
Janacek’s The Adventures of mr. Broucek (English National Opera, director David Pountney, 1992)
Shostakovich's The Nose (The Netherlands Opera, director David Pountney, 1996)
Rienzi (Vienna State Opera, director David Pountney, 1997)
Martinu’s Julietta (Opera North, director David Pountney, 1997) - Barclays Theatre Award nomination 1998
Fenelon’s Salambo (world premiere, Paris National Opera, director Francesca Zambello, 1998)
Britten’s The Turn of The Screw (Theatre de la Monnaie, director Keith Warner, 1998)
Weber’s Der Freischutz (English National Opera, director David Pountney, 1999)
Janacek’s Katya Kabanova (Bayerische Staatsoper, director David Pountney, 1999)
Martinu’s The Greek Passion (Bregenz Festival/Royal Opera House, director David Pountney, 1999/2000) - Olivier Award (2001, Best New Opera Production)
Gounod’s Faust (Bayerische Staatsoper, director David Pountney, 2000)
Macbeth (Zurich Opera, director David Pountney, 2001)
Berg’s Wozzeck (Royal Opera House, director Keith Warner, 2002)
Turandot (Salzburg Festival, director David Pountney, 2002)
Janacek’s Jenufa (Vienna State Opera, director David Pountney, 2002)
Bernstein’s West Side Story (Bregenz Festival, director Francesca Zambello, 2003)
Zemlinsky’s The Dwarf, Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins (Opera North, director David Pountney, 2004) - South Bank Show Award
Die Zauberfloete (Vienna’s Volksoper, director Helmuth Lohner, 2005)
Britten’s Peter Grimes (Zurich Opera, director David Pountney, 2005)
Nielsen’s Maskarade (Bregenz Festival/Royal Opera House, director David Pountney, 2005)
Schoenberg’s Moses and Aaron (Bayerische Staatsoper, director David Pountney, 2006)
Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten (Ruhr Triennale, director David Pountney, 2006)
Der Ring des Nibelungen (Das Rheingold - 2004, Die Walkure - 2005, Siegfried - 2006, Gotterdammerung - 2006, Royal Opera House, director Keith
Warner)
Chabrier’s L’Etoile (Zurich Opera, director David Pountney, 2006)
Halevy’s La Juive (Zurich Opera, director David Pountney, 2007)
Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina (Welsh National Opera, director David Pountney, 2007)
Her theatre work includes
sets and costumes for As You Like It (Nottingham Playhouse, director David Pountney, 1997) and La Bete Humaine (Nottingham Playhouse, director Pip Broughton, 1993) and costumes for
The Taming of the Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Company, director Gale Edwards, 1995) and Napoleon (Shaftesbury Theatre, director Francesca Zambello, 2000); for Film and TV: Amahl
and the Night Visitors (BBC Wales, director Francesca Zambello, 2001) - BAFTA nomination.
She received the Martinu Foundation Medal for Julietta and The Greek Passion and was nominated by Opernwelt Magazine as Costume Designer of the
Year for Maskarade. She was part of the British team that won The Golden Triga at the 2003 Prague Triennale.
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