Etienne Pluss
Set Designer
© Eléna Bauer / Opéra national de Paris
The Swiss set and costume designer Etienne Pluss, back at Oper Frankfurt for this new production of Così fan tutte, works regularly with Nadja Loschky, on works including Weinberg's The (female) Passenger (a Oper Graz/Staststheater in Mainz co-production), Hamlet at the Komische Oper Berlin, Alice in Wonderland at Zurich Opera and Giulio Cesare in Egitto at Oper Frankfurt and Claus Guth, most recently on La bohème at the Opéra national de Paris, Don Carlo at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Salome at the Bolschoi in Moscow and the Met in New York, Dusapin's Il viaggio, Dante and Rameau‘s Samson at the Festival d‘Aix-en-Provence, Haas‘ Bluthaus at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and Turandot at the Vienna State Opera. He also teamed up with Katharina Thoma for wonderful productions including Offenbach's The Bandits - being revived this season! - and Flotow's Martha (get the CD - OehmsClassics) and R.B. Schlather on Verdi's Macbeth at Oper Frankfurt. He staged La Rondine at Zurich Opera and Il trittico at the Salzburg Festival with Christof Loy and Spontini's La vestale at the Opéra national de Paris with Lydia Steyer. In recent years he has worked at places including the Opéra de Lyon, La Monnaie in Brussels, Theater Basel, in Göteborg and Stockholm, and the Schauspiel houses in Vienna (Burgtheater, Volkstheater), Leipzig, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Oslo and at the Berlin Ensemble, with directors including Adriana Altaras, George Tabori, Sabrina Hölzer, Enrico Lübbe, Patrick Schlösser, Jetske Mijnssen, Richard Brunel and Evgeny Titov. His set for Beat Furrer's Violet Snow (dir: Claus Guth) at the Staatsoper in Berlin won a 2019 Deutschen Theaterpreis: DER FAUST. Etienne Pluss also designs stages for fashion shows in Milan and Berlin. He ran an art gallery in Geneva before studying set design at the University for Arts in Berlin.