Christoph Fischer
Set Designer
© Oper Frankfurt
Christoph Fischer studied stage and film design at the University for the Applied Arts in Vienna, after which he worked as a freelance set designer’s assistant at places including the Bayerische Staatsoper and Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich and Volkstheater in Vienna before joining Oper Frankfurt in 2018, since when he has worked with Johannes Leiacker, Herbert Murauer, Paolo Fantin, Kaspar Glarner and Rainer Sellmaier. He often creates inspired designs for productions in our JETZT! »Opera for Children« series (most recent: Don Giovanni). Other recent important projects included an AZRAEL / Edenarabeske double-bill at the Vienna Modern Festival, Ragnar Kjartansson’s Bliss at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Fluxus Festival and Paul Abraham’s Märchen im Grand-Hotel / Fairy Stories in the Grand Hotel at Hamburg State Opera (director: Sascha-Alexander Todtner). He and Jenny Schleif‘s Installation Bar III-IV won him the »Special Award for Best Shared Space« at the 2015 Prague Quadriennale and he provided the wherewithal for a livestreamed production of Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals (dir: Katharina Kastening) in the Bockenheimer Depot, where he also designed the sets for Brigitte Fassbaender's 2022 Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and two Frankfurt Firsts this season: young Mozart's Ascanio in Alba and Wolfgang Fortner's Don Perlimplín's Love for Belisa in his Garden. He also returns to the Hamburg State Opera to help stage Reynaldo Hahn's Ciboulette.