Klaus Bruns

The two share a long-standing partnership, which has been on display at the Komische Oper Berlin in productions such as Rusalka, Moses und Aron, Eugene Onegin, Anatevka, and Candide. Together they also worked on Der feurige Engel (Bavarian State Opera), La fanciulla del West and Macbeth (Zurich Opera House), Strindberg’s Ein Traumspiel (Deutsches Theater Berlin), Shakespeare’s Der Kaufmann von Venedig (Schauspiel Frankfurt), and Der Ring des Nibelungen (Hanover State Opera).

In the field of opera, he collaborated with directors Götz Friedrich, Kirsten Harms, Harry Kupfer, Damiano Michieletto, and Peter Mussbach at the three Berlin opera houses, the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, and the opera houses of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Mannheim.

In theater, his costumes have been seen at the theaters in Stuttgart, Graz, Zurich, Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Schaubühne, the Residenztheater, and the Kammerspiele in Munich, often in close and frequent collaboration with Karin Henkel.