Kaspar Glarner
Set & Costume Designer
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Kaspar Glarner was born in Zurich and studied in Paris. He works regularly at Oper Frankfurt: as costume designer on this Anselm Weber production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk, set designer on Vincent Boussard‘s Ezio and Adriana Lecouvreur, the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter / The Tenant, our recent new Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Johannes Erath, a Medium / Satyricon double bill in the Bockenheimer Depot and costume designer for Keith Warner, with whom he also staged Otello at Covent Garden and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Vienna State Opera in 2022, on productions of Death in Venice, Reimann’s Lear and Falstaff - and a new Weill / Orff The Tsar want his Photograph Taken / The Clever Woman double bill. He created a wonderful new Ring with Brigitte Fassbaender for the Tirol Festival in Erl, where he also designed the costumes and set for Hans Walter Richter's Le postillon de Lonjumeau, which comes to Frankfurt later this season, during which you can also see his set and costumes for Dittersdorf's Doctor and Pharmacist in the Bockenheimer Depot! Kaspar Glarner made his debut at Oper Frankfurt with stunning sets for Keith Warner's Volo di notte / Il prigioniero double bill. Other work has including set and costumes for Walter Sutcliffe productions of Owen Wingrave and Reimann's Ghost Sonata in Frankfurt, and Rigoletto, The Turn of the Screw, d'Albert's Tiefland and Gounod's Faust in other places. He and Johannes Erath have worked together for many years on works including Arnulf Herrmann's The Tenant at Oper Frankfurt, The Tales of Hoffmann in Bern, Aida at Cologne Opera, Lohengrin in Graz and Oslo, I masnadieri at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and their production of Kurtág's Fin de Partie opens at the Staatsoper in Berlin in January 2025. He also works with Christine Mielitz, Vincent Boussard, Amon Miyamoto, Mariusz Trelinski and Dale Duesing. His artistry has been seen in places including San Francisco, Tokyo, Santiago de Chile, Copenhagen, Prague, Warsaw, Karlsruhe, Halle, Strasbourg, Toulouse and the Aix-en-Provence Festival.