Rebecca Ringst

Stage Designer

Rebecca Ringst grew up in Germany and Spain. She studied stage design at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden, Germany, and media art at ESDi in Sabadell, Spain.

Since 2006, she has been collaborating with Calixto Bieito, a partnership that has taken her to international opera and theatre houses such as Komische Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, and Residenztheater Munich, English National Opera London, Nationaltheater and Den Norske Opera Oslo, Goodman Theatre Chicago, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Teatro de la Plata in Argentina, Oper Zürich, Oper Stuttgart, Vlaamse Opera, Opera Paris, Teatros del Canal Madrid, Betty Nansen Teatret Copenhagen, and Nationale Opera & Ballet in Amsterdam, among others.

She has also worked with esteemed directors like Stefan Herheim (Oper Stuttgart), Lisa Stöppler (Semperoper Dresden), and Andrea Moses (Deutsches Theater Berlin). Since 2015, she has been collaborating with Barrie Kosky at Bayerische Staatsoper, Komische Oper Berlin, and the Bayreuth Festivals.

In 2010, “Opernwelt” magazine named her “Best European Stage Designer” for her production of “Der Rosenkavalier” (director: Stefan Herheim). She received the Spanish Premio Max in 2014 for her set design in “Forests” (Director: Calixto Bieito). Recently, she has been nominated twice for the Norwegian Hedda Award. In 2019, she was honored with the Opera Awards.

Currently, Rebecca Ringst is preparing “Trionfi” for the Staatsoper Hamburg with Calixto Bieito and “Il Trittico” for the Nationale Opera & Ballet in Amsterdam with Barrie Kosky.

Works

2024
Opera & Ballet Amsterdam, „Il Trittico“
Direction: Barrie Kosky
Staatsoper Hamburg, „Trionfi“
Direction: Calixto Bieito

revival: Agrippina
revival: King Lear

2023
Staatsoper unter den Linden, „Aida“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, „Die Fledermaus“
Direction: Barrie Kosky
Opéra and Ballet Amsterdam, „Gulio Ceasare“
Direction: Calixto Bieito

revival: Geneva, „Lady Macbeth“
revival: Barcelona, „Poppea“

2022
Staastoper Vienna, „Tristan und Isolde“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Staastoper Vienna, „Der Liebe Tod- ein Mahler-Projekt“
Direction: Calixto Bieito

revival: Madrid, „Feuriger Engel“

2021
Opéra and Ballet Amsterdam, „Die ersten Menschen“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Opéra Geneve, „Krieg und Frieden“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, „Dreigroschenoper“
Direction: Barrie Kosky

revival: Hamburg, „Agrippina“

2020
Staatsoper unter den Linden, „Lohengrin“
Direction: Calixto Bieito

2019
Semperoper Dresden, „Le gran Macabre“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Prinzregententheater, „Agrippina“
Direction: Barrie Kosky

2018
Komische Oper Berlin, „Die Gezeichneten“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Oper Zurich, „Poppea“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Semperoper Dresden, „Moses und Aron“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Komische Oper Berlin, „Candide“
Direction: Barrie Kosky
Madrid, „Die Soldaten“

2017
Festspielhaus Bayreuth, „Die Meistersinger“
Direction: Barrie Kosky
Oper Zurich, „Feuriger Engel“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
La Fenice, Venice, „Tannhäuser“
Direction: Calixto Bieito

2016
Komische Oper Berlin and Oper Zurich, „Eugen Onegin“
Direction: Barrie Kosky
Nationaltheater Oslo, „La deg Vaere“
Direction: Johannes Dahl
Opéra Garnier, Paris, „King Lear“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Bayerisches Staatstheater Munich, „La Juive“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Nationaltheater Oslo, „Mysterier“
Direction: Calixto Bieito

2015
Deutsches Theater Berlin, „Unerträglich innige Umarmungen“
Direction: Andrea Moses
Komische Oper Berlin, „Gianni Schicci und Blaubart“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen and La Fenice, Venice, „Tannhäuser“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
English National Opera, London, „Forza del Destino“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, „Feuriger Engel“
Direction: Barrie Kosky

2014
Vlaamse Opera, Antwerpen, „Lady Macbeth“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Staatstheater Nürnberg and Théatre du Capitole, Toulouse, „Turandot“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Nationaltheatret Oslo, „Traumspiel“
Direction: Calixto Bieito

2013
Den Norske Opera Oslo, „Hoffmanns Erzählungen“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Oper Zurich, „Die Soldaten“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Residenztheater Munich, „Leonce und Lena“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Stage for „Fidelio“
Direction: Calixto Bieito, English National Opera, London

2012
Teatro Real, Madrid and Teatro de la Plata, Argentina, „Pepita Jimenéz“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Semperoper Dresden, „We come to the River“
Direction: Elisabeth Stöppler
REP, Birmingham, Barbican London, „Forests“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Residenztheater Munich, „Der Kirschgarten“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Goodman Theatre Chicago, „Camino Real“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Komische Oper Berlin, „Freischütz“
Direction: Calixto Bieito

2011
Theater Freiburg, „Das große Welttheater“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Semperoper Dresden, „Ballo en Mascera“
Direction: Elisabeth Stöppler
Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen and Ghent, „Mahagonny“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Komische Oper Berlin, „Dialog der Karmeliterinnen“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Staatstheater Stuttgart and Teatro Romea, Barcelona, „People,Cars and Crises“
Directors: Annette Pullen, Josep Galindo
Theater Freiburg, „Aus Deutschland“
Direction: Calixto Bieito

2010
Bayerische Staatsoper, English National Opera London, „Fidelio“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Semperoper Dresden, „Gisela!“ Uraufführung/Reiner Werner Henze
Direction: Elisabeth Stöppler
Theater Basel, „Aida“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Betty Nansen Theatre Copenhagen, International Festival Bergen, „Voices“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Staatstheater Oldenburg, „Faust“
Direction: Elisabeth Stöppler
Theater Freiburg, „Le Gran Macabre“
Direction: Calixto Bieito

2009
Staatstheater Stuttgart, „Rosenkavalier“
Direction: Stefan Herheim
Nationaltheater Mannheim, „Lulu“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Nationaltheater Mannheim, El Grec Barcelona, CDN Madrid, „Don Karlos“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Theater Freiburg, „La Vida Breve“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Komische Oper Berlin, „Armida“
Direction: Calixto Bieito

2008
Staatstheater Oldenburg, „Werther“
Direction: Elisabeth Stöppler
Nationaltheater Oslo, International Festival Bergen, „Brand“
Direction: Calixto Bieito
Staatstheater Stuttgart, „Der fliegende Holländer“
Direction: Calixto Bieito

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