Ben Baur studied stage and costume design at the Berlin School of Art and Design. Since 2007 he has worked as a freelance designer in opera and theatre houses all over Europe including Maxim Gorki Theatre and Deutsches Theater Berlin, Munich Volkstheater, Saarbrücken State Theater, Kassel State Theater, Aalto Theater Essen, Vienna Burgtheater, Stuttgart Opera, Zürich Opera House, Semperoper Dresden, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Royal Opera Versailles, Opera Nancy, Netherlands Opera Amsterdam and Royal Danish Opera. Baur also works as a director in opera and theatre, credits including Lucia di Lammermoor, Katya Kabanova and La traviata (Saarbrücken), Il trovatore and Roméo et Juliette (Graz), Dialogues des Carmélites and Don Giovanni (Gelsenkirchen), Il pirata and Faust (St Gallen) ,Hofmannsthal’s Elektra (Deutsches Theater Göttingen), Dido and Aeneas (Aalto Theater Essen) and Cleopatra (Danish National Opera Aarhus) for which he also created set designs.
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