Jürgen Rose
Born in Bernburg (Saale), Jürgen Rose studied at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. From 1961 to 2001, he worked as a stage and costume designer at Münchner Kammerspiele. He also worked closely with the choreographers John Cranko and John Neumeier. From 1970 onwards, he designed opera and ballet sets in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Berlin, Vienna, London, Paris, Milan and New York as well as at the festivals in Bayreuth and Salzburg. From 1973 to 2000, he taught as a professor of stage design at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1996 he has also directed his own opera productions. He has staged Werther, Norma, Don Carlo and The Cunning Little Vixen at Bayerische Staatsoper. His stage and costume designs here include Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte. For Bavarian State Opera Ballet, he created the sets for John Cranko's Onegin and Romeo and Juliet, which were adopted into the repertoire of Bayerisches Staatsballett. He was also the set and costume designer for John Neumeier's story ballets Illusions – like Swan Lake, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Lady of the Camellias, which are now part of Bayerisches Staatsballett's repertoire. In 2015, a selection from his complete works was presented in a double exhibition at the German Theatre Museum in Munich and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. In 2025, he was awarded the ‘Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum’ honour by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts; in 2026, he received the Lifetime Achievement and Honorary Award at the OPER!Awards in Regensburg.
(Information as of April 2026)