Brigitte Reiffenstuel

Brigitte Reiffenstuel was born in Munich and studied at the London College of Fashion and Central St Martins College of Art and Design. She works internationally in theatre and opera.
Her most recent costume designs include Tom Stoppard’s new play Leopoldstadt on London’s West End, soon to transfer to Broadway, Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera and La sonnambula at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
Her work in theatre has included Oklahoma! for Chichester Festival Theatre, Light in the Piazza at London’s Royal Festival Hall, Twelth Night at the Young Vic and Kiss Me, Kate at the Graz Opera, the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. In 2014 she designed the costumes for Kate Bush’s acclaimed Before the Dawn concerts in London.
In opera, she has designed costumes for the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, English National Opera, La Scala, Milan, the Paris Opéra, the Bavarian State Opera, the Zurich Opera, the Stuttgart State Opera, the Komische Oper in Berlin, the Frankfurt Opera, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the San Francisco Opera, the Washington National Opera, the Santa Fe Opera and for opera houses in Madrid, Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Tel Aviv, Sydney, Tokyo and South Korea, among many others. Many of her productions have gone on to tour internationally including Falstaff (Royal Opera House, Canadian Opera Company, La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National Opera), Peter Grimes (English National Opera, Oviedo, Vlaamse Opera, Deutsche Oper, Berlin), Faust (Royal Opera House, Lille, Monte Carlo, Trieste, Valencia, Australia), Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Lille) and Adriana Lecouvreur (Metropolitan Opera,
Paris Opéra, Vienna State Opera, Teatre del Liceu, Royal Opera House, La Scala).