Jürgen Rose

Jürgen Rose, born in Bernburg/Saale, studied at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. From 1961 to 2001, he worked as a stage and costume designer at the Münchner Kammerspiele theatre. 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 State 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 the Bayerische Staatsoper. His stage and costume designs here include Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte. For the Bayerische Staatsoper he created the sets for some of the company's most important repertoire works: John Cranko's Onegin and Romeo and Juliet as well as John Neumeier's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Illusionen wie Schwanensee and The Lady of the Camellias. In 2015, a selection from his complete works was presented in a double exhibition at the German Theatre Museum and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. He recently redesigned the production Mayerling (choreography: Kenneth MacMillan) for the Stuttgart Ballet and developed the set and costumes for Edward Clug's new choreography of The Nutcracker.

(Information as of 2024)