Ursula Renzenbrink
Costume Designer
© Monika Rittershaus
Ursula Renzenbrink was born in Hamburg in 1952 where she studied set design with Wilfried Minks. After two years working as an assistant at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg she worked designing costumes for many well known directors, including Luk Perceval at places including the Berlin and Hannover state operas. She started collaborating with Christof Loy in 2008. Their productions in Frankfurt included this wonderful staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Night before Christmas (»Performance of the Year 2022«, Opernwelt), Norma, Scartazzini's Der Sandmann and Don Giovanni. Other joint projects have included Orfeo ed Euridice at the 2023 Salzburg Festival, Tannhäuser at the Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Ariodante at the Witsun Salzburg Festival, Daphne at Theater Basel and the Hamburg State Opera, Khowanshchina in Amsterdam, Alceste in Aix-en-Provence and the Vienna State Opera, Alcina at Zurich Opera, Rusalka at the Teatro Real in Madrid and Luisa Miller in Glyndebourne. Forthcoming plans include Guercoeur at the Opéra National du Rhin later this season.