GRETA GOIRIS

She studied costume design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and set design at the Theatre Institute of Barcelona. Since 2001 she has collaborated with stage director Johan Simons, designing costumes for Fidelio (Paris), Bluebeard’s Castle (Salzburg), Alceste (Ruhrtriennale), Don Carlo, Wozzeck (with Flora Kruppa, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen) as well as for theatre and music theatre productions for companies and venues including ZT Hollandia, Münchner Kammerspiele, Vienna Festival, Vienna Burgtheater, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Athens Epidaurus Festival. She also designed costumes for Les Indes galantes (dir. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Bavarian State Opera) and The Shell Trial (with Flora Kruppa, Dutch National Opera). She has collaborated with stage directors Pierre Audi, Karin Beier, Ivo van Hove, Josse De Pauw, Peter Verhelst, Jacques Delcuvellerie. The production Die Zauberflöte (La Monnaie, 2005) marked the start of her collaboration with William Kentridge, which has continued with the operas The Nose (MET), Lulu (Dutch National Opera, MET, ENO), Wozzeck (Salzburg, MET, Sydney Opera), installations and music theatre productions.