Anna Viebrock

 Anna Viebrock studied stage design with Karl Kneidl at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. She has worked with Christoph Marthaler on numerous productions for the Berlin Volksbühne, the Hamburg Schauspielhaus, Frankfurt Opera, the Opéra Bastille, the Salzburg Festival and the Zurich Schauspielhaus, which she helped to run until 2004. Since 1994 she has worked regularly with Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito on opera productions for Basel Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam and above all Stuttgart, where she has designed the sets and costumes for La clemenza di Tito, L'italiana in Algeri, Alcina, L'incoronazione di Poppea, Siegfried, Norma, Moses und Aron, Doktor Faust and Alceste. Anna Viebrock has repeatedly been named Stage Designer of the Year. For the Hanover State Opera she staged iOPAL, the world première of a piece by Hans-Joachim Hespos. Among other works that she has directed, often in collaboration with the composer Johannes Harneit, are In Vain and Geschwister Tanner at the Zurich Schauspielhaus, Ohne Leben Tod at the Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin, 69 Arten den Blues zu spielen and Doubleface oder Die Innenseite des Mantels at the Basel Theatre and Ariane et Barbe-Bleu at the Opéra Bastille in Paris.

She also designed the sets and costumes for Christoph Marthaler's Bayreuth Festival production of Tristan und Isolde. First seen in 2005, this production was revived in 2006 and 2008 and will be shown in the year 2009 as well.

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