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Katrin Lea Tag

Set & Costume Designer

Lea Katrin Tag
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Katrin Lea Tag works almost continually with Barrie Kosky, with whom she created three unforgettable productions for Oper Frankfurt: a Dido and Aeneas / Bluebeard's Castle double bill, an unforgettable Carmen, which was seen at Covent Garden in 2018, and a breathtaking Salome, which was nominated for a DER FAUST German Theatre Prize. She's back in Frankfurt this season for Klaus Guth's new Elektra and this new Barrie Kosky production of Handel's Hercules. Their hugely successful productions at the Komische Oper Berlin included Der Jahrmarkt von Sorotschinzi / Sorotschinzi Fair, The Monteverdi – Trilogy, The Bassarids and The Tales of Hoffmann. She also designed sets and costumes for Kosky productions of Handel's Saul at the Glyndebourne Festival, Castor and Pollux at English National Opera in London, Armide at the Nationale Opera Amsterdam and From the House of the Dead at the Staatsoper in Hannover (2009 Theaterpreis DER FAUST). She worked with Claus Guth on Jephtha in Amsterdam and Paris, Christof Loy (Maria Stuarda, Theater an der Wien), Hans Neuenfels (Ariadne auf Naxos, Staatsoper Berlin), Holger Müller-Brandes and Nadja Loschky (Ariane et Barbe-bleue, Oper Graz), Lotte de Beer (Iolanthe / Nutcracker, Volksoper Wien) and Matthew Wild (Porgy and Bess, Theater an der Wien, which won Austria's Music Theatre Prize). She also works regularly with Michael Thalheimer, at theatres including the Staatsoper Berlin, Deutsche Theater Berlin, the Burgtheater in Vienna and Schauspiel Frankfurt. She designed costumes for Dimiter Gotscheff's Iwanow (Theatertreffen – a big honour - 2006) at the Volksbühne in Berlin.  She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and won 1st prize at the 1997 Graz »International Competition for Direction and the Stage«, was nominated for »Best Designer« at the 2019 International Opera Awards in London and voted »Set Designer of the Year of 2020« by Opernwelt magazine.