Clémence Pernoud Costume designer

Biography

Paris-born Clémence Pernoud, a graduate of ESMOD International Paris, is a costume designer for opera and film. For the stage, she designed her first costumes for Jean Bellorini in a musical play at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. It was in Aix-en-Provence that she met Vincent Huguet, with whom she has collaborated ever since.

Among them are Encor sur le pavé sonne mon pas nocturne (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, 2014), Love I Obey (Scène nationale d'Alençon, 2015, Philharmonie de Paris and tour throughout France, Opéra de Rouen, 2016), Les Voyages de Don Quichotte (Opéra national de Bordeaux, 2016), La Vie parisienne (Bordeaux, 2017), Charpentier's Histoires sacrées with Ensemble Correspondances, Werther (Klagenfurt Stadttheater, 2017), Roméo et Juliette (Opéra de Lucerne, 2018), La Femme sans ombre (Vienna, 2019), Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Bordeaux, 2019). Together they will perform the Mozart Da Ponte trilogy at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin between 2020 and 2023 with Cosi fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni.

Her latest production is Rigoletto at the Theater Basel. She has also collaborated with director Ted Huffman, with whom she co-designed Le Premier Meurtre, a creation by Arthur Lavandier, with Le Balcon at the Opéra de Lille in 2016, and with Eric Oberdorf for the creation of Seven Stones by Ondrej Adamek at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2018. At the Opéra national de Bordeaux, she designed the costumes for Pelléas et Mélisande directed by Florent Siaud and Philippe Béziat in January 2018, and the costumes for La Walkyrie directed by Julia Burbach and Tal Rosner in May 2019. In parallel, she works in film for short films and music videos.

At the Paris Opera: Manon, 2020

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