Set Designer

Anna Kirsch

Biography

Anna-Sofia Kirsch studied scenography in Dortmund and has worked as a freelance set designer since 2020. She is a regular collaborator of director R. B. Schlather, with whom she has created Amor vien dal destino (Oper Frankfurt) and La bohème (Oslo Opera House).

She also has a long-standing collaboration with Calixto Bieito, including The Exterminating Angel at the Paris Opera, Idomeneo for La Monnaie at Prague State Opera, Eliogabalo at Zurich Opera, and Suor Angelica / Il prigioniero at Rome Opera.

Further opera credits include Otello (Staatstheater Mainz) and The Fall of the House of Usher (Staatsoper Hannover), both with Victoria Stevens. 

In 2024, she was nominated for an International Opera Award as Designer of the Year.

Upcoming productions include Opéra de Lyon, the Tiroler Festspiele Erl and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona.