Barbara Drosihn works as a freelance costume designer. Her career has taken her to leading theatres and opera houses throughout Europe, including the Vienna Burgtheater, the Residenztheater and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Thalia Theater and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Theater an der Wien, the Zurich Opera House, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, the Norwegian Opera in Oslo, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Graz Opera.
Barbara Drosihn maintains a continuous collaboration with Christof Loy, which began with Lucrezia Borgia at the Bavarian State Opera. Their work together also includes Parsifal, Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane, Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber and Respighi’s La fiamma at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Königskinder and Lohengrin in Amsterdam, La Voix humaine/Erwartung in Madrid, Don Pasquale and La rondine in Zurich and Così fan tutte and Il trittico at the Salzburg Festival.
Barbara Drosihn has also worked with directors including Tatjana Gürbaca, Michael Thalheimer, Andreas Homoki and Stefan Bachmann. Her productions with Thalheimer have included Tannhäuser in Geneva, while her work for Bachmann includes costume designs for Erfolg after Lion Feuchtwanger at the Residenztheater and for Stefano Massini’s Manhattan Project and Wajdi Mouawad’s Racine carrée du verbe être at the Burgtheater (Akademietheater).
Her recent work includes the zarzuela Benamor at the Theater an der Wien with Christof Loy, Isidor after Shelly Kupferberg at the Akademietheater with Philipp Stölzl and Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Hamburg State Opera with Tatjana Gürbaca.
