Frank Philipp Schlößmann

Frank Philipp Schlößmann (born 1963) is a German scenic designer focused on operas who has worked at major opera houses and festivals internationally. He staged Janáček's ''Jenůfa'' at the Metropolitan Opera, Wagner's ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' at both the Bayreuth Festival and ''Der Ring in Minden'', and the world premiere of Heinz Holliger's ''Lunea'' at the Opernhaus Zürich.

Career

Born in Bad König, Odenwald, Schlößmann studied design of stage and costumes (''Bühnen- und Kostümgestaltung'') at the Salzburg Mozarteum from 1985 to 1989.

He has worked freelance since 1991, collaborating with directors such as , Harry Kupfer and Olivier Tambosi. In Germany, he worked for the Komische Oper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Cologne Opera, the Semperoper in Dresden and the Bavarian State Opera. In Europe, he staged for the Royal Opera House in London, in Dublin, in Amsterdam, Antwerp, in Strasbourg, Bologna and Catania, at La Fenice in Venice and the Liceu in Barcelona, in Oslo, Helsinki and Basel. In the Americas, he designed stages and costumes for the Houston Grand Opera and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, among others. He has also worked in Beijing, Tokyo, and for the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg.

Schlößmann designed stages for Puccini's ''Tosca'' at the English National Opera, ''Manon Lescaut'' at the Lyric Opera in Chicago and the San Francisco Opera, where he also created designs for Janáček's ''The Makropulos Case'' and ''Jenůfa'' and Verdi's ''Falstaff'', and Janáček's ''Jenůfa'' at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and the Los Angeles Opera.

Schlößmann designed stages for festivals including the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and the Handel Festival Halle. He designed the set for Wagner's ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' directed by Tankred Dorst at the Bayreuth Festival, presented from 2006 to 2010. He also designed the set for Katharina Wagner's 2015 production of ''Tristan und Isolde'' there.

At the Bregenz Festival of 2016, Schlößmann directed a revival of Franco Faccio's opera ''Amleto'' from 1865, which had been forgotten for 140 years. He staged Donizetti's ''L'elisir d'amore'' at the Staatsoper Berlin and Verdi's ''La traviata'' for the Oper Leipzig, Staatstheater Saarbrücken, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. He created sets for Wagner's ''Der fliegende Holländer'' at the Volksoper in Vienna, and Puccini's ''Madama Butterfly'' at the Opernhaus Dortmund.

Schlößmann was the designer of stage and costumes for ''Der Ring in Minden'', presenting Wagner's ''Ring'' cycle staged by Gerd Heinz from 2015 to 2019. He framed the stage there by a large ring illuminated in changing colours. For the world premiere of Heinz Holliger's opera ''Lunea'' at the Opernhaus Zürich on 18 February 2018, scenes after Lenau, he designed the stage for the production staged by with Christian Gerhaher in the title role and the composer conducting.

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Frank Philipp Schlößmann
(articles) '' Neue Musikzeitung''

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1963 births
Living people
German scenic designers
German costume designers
Mozarteum University Salzburg alumni