Klaus Grünberg
Set & Lighting Designer
© Anne Kuhn
Klaus Grünberg's back at Oper Frankfurt, where he worked for the first time on Dallapiccola’s Ulisse (»Rediscovery of 2022« at the International Opera Awards) for this new production of Halévy's La Juive. Born in Hamburg, he studied set design with Erich Wonder in Vienna and works as a free-lance set and lighting designer at theatres and opera houses in Europe, Kuwait City and Buenos Aires. He has worked closely with the composer and director Heiner Goebbels and directors Tatjana Gürbaca and Barrie Kosky for many years. Operas at the Komische Oper Berlin included Moses und Aron, Weinberger's Frühlingsstürme / Spring Storms, Pelléas et Mélisande and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. At Zurich Opera they included Macbeth, Rigoletto and Werther. He also worked on Der Freischütz at the Aalto-Theater Essen, Hartmann's Simplicius Simplicissimus, L‘incoronazione di Poppea at Theater Bremen and Shostakovitch's The Nose at Covent Garden in London. He developed substantial projects for the 2012-2014 Ruhrtriennale in factories in the Ruhr region (including Cage's Europeras 1&2 and Partch's Delusion of the Fury). For the 2018 Festival of Art in Herrenhausen he and Anne Kuhn created a theatre installation with recorded works by Luc Ferrari. He has also created light and space installations, including in the outdoors, for groups including the Ensemble Modern and Artangel in London. Future plans include Barrie Kosky's production of Philip Glass’ Echnaton at the Komische Oper Berlin and Gogol's Der Revisor, directed by Mateja Koležnik, at the Akademie Theater in Vienna. He opened MOMOLMA (the museum of more or less modern art) in Hamburg in 1999.