Stephanie Engeln

Stephanie Engeln Set designer

Biography

Stephanie Engeln studied interior architecture and design in Germany. Since 1985, she has created numerous set designs for opera and theatre. Her collaboration with Robert Wilson began in 1989, when she worked as assistant set designer on William Shakespeare’s King Lear at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt.

She subsequently co-designed the sets for La Traviata, Il Trovatore and Handel’s Messiah in Mozart’s arrangement with Wilson. At his request, she completed posthumously the set designs for Tristan und Isolde in Ljubljana, based on Wilson’s designs from 2025.

Over a career spanning more than 40 years, she has worked on a wide range of projects. Beyond opera and theatre, her work encompasses museum exhibitions and installations, architectural projects, interior design, graphic design and furniture design.

At the Paris Opera: The Magic Flute (1991); Madama Butterfly (1993); Pelléas et Mélisande (1997); The Temptation of Saint Anthony (2005); Turandot (2021).

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