Ben Baur
Set & Costume Designer
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Ben Baur is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, on this new production of Handel's Ottone. He studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and designs sets and costumes for operas, plays and ballets. Recent projects included designing the sets for Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the Semperoper in Dresden and Mozarts Le nozze di Figaro and Handel's Agrippina at Zürich Opera. He's a regular guest at many leading venues in Europe, including the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Glyndebourne and Bregenz festivals, the Opéra royal du château de Versailles and opera houses in Graz, Stuttgart, Cologne, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Naples, Monte-Carlo, Valencia and London. Ben Baur also works as a director, most recent productions included Verdi's Aida at the St. Galler Festival, Nabucco at Cologne Opera and Berlioz’ La Damnation de Faust for the DomStufen-Festspiele in Erfurt in 2023. He has worked closely with the director Jetske Mijnssen for many years.