Kaspar Glarner
Set & Costume Designer
© Peter Mayr
Kaspar Glarner was born in Zurich and studied in Paris. He returned to Frankfurt earlier this season for a new production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. He has worked for the company for many years, designing costumes for Anselm Weber's production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk, sets for Vincent Boussard's Ezio and Adriana Lecouvreur, with Johannes Erath on the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter / The Tenant (commissioned by Oper Frankfurt) and a recent new Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, which was followed by last season's new production of Handel's Alcina. Their previous productions included The Tales of Hoffmann in Bern, Aida in Cologne, Lohengrin in Graz and Oslo and I masnadieri at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. Their staging of Kurtág's Fin de Partie was seen at the Staatsoper in Berlin in 2025, where they return in 2026/27 for a new Manon Lescaut. He worked on Carmen at Oper Halle this season, where he returns for Orphée aux enfers. He designed sets and costumes for many Keith Warner productions, including Otello at Covent Garden, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Vienna State Opera in 2022 and in Frankfurt: Death in Venice, Reimann's Lear, Falstaff and this Weill / Orff The Tsar want his Photograph Taken / The Clever Woman double bill. He created a wonderful new Ring with Brigitte Fassbaender for the Tirol Festival in Erl, where he also designed the costumes and set for Hans Walter Richter's Le postillon de Lonjumeau, which came to Frankfurt last season, during which he designed set and costumes for Dittersdorf's Doctor and Pharmacist in the Bockenheimer Depot. Kaspar Glarner made his debut at Oper Frankfurt with stunning sets for Keith Warner's Volo di notte / Il prigioniero double bill. Other work has included set and costumes for Walter Sutcliffe productions of Owen Wingrave and Reimann's Ghost Sonata in Frankfurt, and Rigoletto, The Turn of the Screw, Albert's Tiefland and Gounod's Faust in other places. He also teams up with Christine Mielitz, Vincent Boussard, Amon Miyamoto, Mariusz Trelinski and Dale Duesing. His artistry has been seen in places including San Francisco, Tokyo, Santiago de Chile, Copenhagen, Prague, Warsaw, Karlsruhe, Halle, Strasbourg, Toulouse and the Aix-en-Provence Festival.