Barbara Drosihn trained as a dressmaker before studying costume design at the University of Applied Sciences in her native city of Hamburg. After working as an assistant at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, she designed costumes for the Thalia Theater, the Hamburg Schauspielhaus, the Vienna Burgtheater, the Bochum Schauspielhaus, the Dresden Staatsschauspiel and the Cologne Schauspiel, working with directors such as Michael Thalheimer, Stephan Kimmig, Nicolas Stemann, Andreas Kriegenburg and Stefan Bachmann. She designed her first opera in 2009: Christof Loy’s production of Lucrezia Borgia at the Bavarian State Opera. Their work together continued with Parsifal, Der Rosenkavalier and Der ferne Klang at Stockholm’s Royal Opera, Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Don Pasquale at the Zurich Opera and Così fan tutte at the 2020 Salzburg Festival. Also in Zurich she designed the costumes for Andreas Homoki’s productions of I puritani and Fidelio.
Barbara Drosihn has also worked closely with the director Tatjana Gürbaca, most notably on Parsifal and Der fliegende Holländer for Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp, La traviata for the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, Capriccio and the Ring-Trilogie for the Theater an der Wien, La finta giardiniera in Winterthur and for the Zurich Opera and Le Grand Macabre in Zurich.
