Florence von Gerkan - Stage/Costume Designer
Biography
Florence von Gerkan, born in Hamburg, studied costume design at the Berliner Hochschule der Künste with Prof. Martin Rupprecht.
In 1988 she went as an assistant to the Thalia Theater Hamburg where she started her work with Jürgen Flimm and Erich Wonder. She designed the costumes for UNCLE WANJA and THE WILD DUCK. With Wilfried Minks she did DIE FLEDERMAUS in Düsseldorf, followed by many opera productions with Jürgen Flimm in Zürich and Vienna: a.o. ALCINA, LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, DON GIOVANNI and COSÌ FAN TUTTE, Haydn's L’ANIMA DEL FILOSOFO and IL TRIONFO DEL TEMPO, Schubert's ALFONSO UND ESTRELLA, Verdi's LA TRAVIATA and Offenbach's LA PERICHOLE; she created the costumes for Alban Berg's WOZZECK at the Scala in Milan and for FIDELIO at the Metropolitan Opera New York.
With Cesare Lievi she did the world premiere of SCHLAFES BRUDER by Herbert Willi in Zurich where she also met the Swiss film director Daniel Schmid with whom she later worked together for LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX and IL TROVATORE. She has also designed the costumes for Szymanowski's KING ROGER at the Staatstheater Stuttgart and for the RING at Bayreuth Festival, for Haydn's L’ANIMA DEL FILOSOFO at the Vienna Festival, including a revival at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, as well as for the world premiere of Cerha’s DER RIESE VOM STEINFELD at the Vienna State Opera.
Future projects include amongst others an ELIAS CANETTI production at Théâtre de Vidy in Lausanne.
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