Kaspar Glarner

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Kaspar Glarner (born in Zurich ) is a Swiss stage and costume designer .

life and work

Kaspar Glarner studied in Paris. After graduating, he worked there as a freelance painter, graphic artist and interior designer until he was hired by Rolf Glittenberg as a stage design assistant at the Thalia Theater Hamburg . He then assisted Erich Wonder in several international opera productions. First own work with the directors Markus Imhoof and Hansgünther Heyme followed.

The collaboration with the director Uwe Eric Laufenberg led Kaspar Glarner to renowned opera houses across Europe, to the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, to the Grand Théâtre de Genève (for Tosca ), to Oldenburg ( Peter Grimes ), Marseille ( Lucrezia Borgia ), to Frankfurt , Hamburg and Freiburg ( Fidelio ). Laufenberg and Glarner cooperated in drama at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and at the Residenztheater in Munich . During Laufenberg's directorship at the Hans Otto Theater Potsdam from 2004 to 2009, the artist designed the sets for Die Hermannsschlacht , Die Dreigroschenoper and A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as for two world premieres: Katte by Thorsten Becker and Julia Timoschenko by Adriana Altaras and Maxim Kurotschkin .

As a result, the Frankfurt Opera and the director Keith Warner became the main axes of his work. Warner and Glarner created four productions together in Frankfurt: Death in Venice , Lear , Volo di notte / Il prigioniero and Falstaff . Glarner accompanied Warner as a costume designer to the Hamburg State Opera , the Theater an der Wien , the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg and Mulhouse, the Royal Opera in Copenhagen and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. In Frankfurt, the set and costume designer continued his work with a number of other directors - with Udo Samel (for Schubert's song cycles Die Schöne Müllerin , Winterreise and Schwanengesang ), with Christoph Quest ( The White Rose ), Walter Sutcliffe ( Owen Wingrave and Die Gespenstersonate ) and with Vincent Boussard (sets for Adriana Lecouvreur and Ezio ).

Glarner also worked elsewhere with Dale Duesing ( Hansel and Gretel in Bern), with Christine Mielitz (in Dortmund and in the Theater an der Wien ) and further with Walter Sutcliffe ( Albert Herring in Linz, Werther in Magdeburg, Luisa Miller and La traviata in Braunschweig ). In the 2010s he increasingly took on tasks in France - in Bordeaux, Toulon, Toulouse, Lyon, Avignon, Strasbourg and Mulhouse. In 2014 he designed - together with Marco Brehme - for the Munich State Theater on Gärtnerplatz the stage design for the dance piece Schlagobers by Richard Strauss . The performance took place in the Cuvilliés Theater due to the renovation of the State Theater . In 2017 he designed the set for the world premiere of the opera Der Mieter by Arnulf Herrmann , conducted by Kazushi Ōno , staged by Johannes Erath , with whom Glarner had previously worked in Bern, Cologne, Graz and Oslo.

Acting (selection)

Opera (selection)

Further orders

Movie

  • 2020: Who the f ... is Roger Rossmeisl (documentary by Luc Quelin ; production)

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personal data
SURNAME Glarner, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss stage and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich