Lluc Castells

Costume Designer

Lluc Castells
© Alex Rademakers

Lluc Castells, who was born in Barcelona, works as a set and costume designer for plays, operas, dance, musicals, circus and films. He's been working regularly with Àlex Ollé since 2009, on productions including Frankenstein, Le Grand Macabre and Oedipe at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at theTeatro Real in Madrid, Quartet at La Scala Milan, Enescu's Oedipe and Norma at Covent Carden in London, Un ballo in maschera at Opera Australia, Faust and Il trovatore at the Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Madama Butterfly at HOSH Opera in Australia, Pelléas et Mélisande at the Semperoper in Dresden and La Bohème at the Teatro Regio in Turin. Many of these production were also seen internationally at theatres including the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Opéra National in Paris, Bolschoi in Moscow, English National Opera in Lon­don, the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, the Festwochen in Vienna, the Holland Festival, the Megaron in Athens, in Lisbon, Lille and Buenos Aires. He recently designed the costumes for Mefistofele at the Opéra de Lyon (which was also performed at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart), L'histoire du soldat in Lyon and Lausanne,Turandot and Carmen in Japan, Campra's Idoménée at the Opéra de Lille and Staatsoper in Berlin, Rusalka at Bergen National Opera and The Nose at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen (co-production with Brussels), all with Àlex Ollé. Now he's back at Oper Frankfurt, where he worked on Manon Lescaut, for this new production of Fortner's Blood Wedding.