The costume designer Ursula Renzenbrink was born in Hamburg in 1952 and studied set design with Wilfried Minks. Following two years as an assistant at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, she worked as a costume designer with well-known directors such as Jürgen Flimm, Matthias Langhoff, Peter Zadek and Claus Peymann. For Luk Perceval she has designed costumes for both theatre and opera; their opera collaborations have included Tristan und Isolde in Stuttgart, The Makropulos Affair at the Hanover State Opera and Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine / Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda at the Berlin State Opera. She first worked with Christof Loy on Gustave Charpentier’s Louise at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. Their other collaborations have included Die Frau ohne Schatten, Theodora and Ariodante at the Salzburg Festival, Les Vêpres siciliennes, Khovanshchina and Tannhäuser at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Alceste at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and at the Vienna State Opera, Die lustige Witwe in Geneva, Daphne and Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini’s Der Sandmann in Basel, Don Giovanni, Norma and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Christmas Eve for the Frankfurt Opera, Alcina and La straniera for the Zurich Opera House, Falstaff at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Rusalka at the Teatro Real in Madrid and Luisa Miller for Glyndebourne Festival.
