Meentje Nielsen
Costume Designer
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Meentje Nielsen, who worked at Oper Frankfurt for the first time on Orlando furioso, which was followed by this production of Königskinder, Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying Dutchman and Il trovatore, works regularly designing costumes for David Bösch productions, including Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Nabucco at the Semperoper in Dresden, Il trovatore at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Le nozze di Figaro in Amsterdam, Elektra at Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp, Der Sturm I The Tempest, Die Ratten The Rats and Kleiner Mann – Was nun? / What now? – Little man? at the Schauspielhaus in Bochum, Das Käthchen von Heilbronn at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Orest, Peer Gynt and Der Prinz von Homburg at the Residenz Theater in Munich. Born in Hamburg, she studied set design at the University of Arts in Berlin, graduating as Achim Freyer's Master Pupil. She began working as a set and costume designer in 1992 at theatres including the Berlin Ensemble, the Deutsche Theater Berlin and Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. She has also worked with other directors including Fritz Marquardt, Thomas Heise, Ivan Stanev, Mex Schlüpfer and Anselm Weber.