Dialogues des Carmélites
Francis Poulenc
- Conductor
- Bertrand de Billy
- Director
- Magdalena Fuchsberger
- Set Design
- Monika Biegler
- Costume Design
- Valentin Köhler
- Video Design
- Aron Kitzig
- Lighting Design
- Rudolf Fischer
Francis Poulenc
Oscar Strasnoy
Benjamin Britten
Ernst Krenek
Franz Schreker
W.A. Mozart
Giuseppe Verdi
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Kurt Weill
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Monika Biegler is a set and costume designer based in Vienna, working across opera, theatre, music theatre and dance.
Her work explores the relationship between space and the body – the moment when a stage becomes more than a setting and enters into a living dialogue with those who inhabit it. She is interested in spaces that invite performers to form a particular, sometimes unexpected relationship with their surroundings, generating tension, atmosphere and images that can stay with the audience.
Each work demands its own visual language. Her starting point is always the content itself and the search for the form that can reveal something beyond the obvious. She is drawn to reduction, strong spatial ideas and the creative possibilities of limitation.
Over the course of her career, Monika Biegler has created more than sixty productions for opera, theatre, music theatre and dance, working both in established institutions and in independent and experimental contexts. Her early training in fashion and costume was followed by studies in Theatre Design for Performance at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.
Her work has been presented at institutions including the Vienna State Opera, the Burgtheater, Neue Oper Wien, Oper Graz, the Aalto Theatre Essen, Staatsoperette Dresden, Theater Heidelberg and Theater Münster, among others. Her work encompasses productions ranging from new works and contemporary opera to classical repertoire, musical theatre and dance.
With more than three decades of experience, her practice continues to be driven by curiosity, collaboration and the search for new perspectives.