Born in Salzburg, Christof Hetzer studied under Erich Wonder in Vienna. Since 2001, he has worked as a costume and set designer at the Schaubühne Berlin, Theatre Basel, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Frankfurt Opera, Nationaltheater Mannheim, and Opera Flanders in Antwerp.He has collaborated with directors such as Hans Neuenfels, Pierre Audi, Deborah Warner, Jan Philipp Gloger, David Hermann, and works regularly with Lotte de Beer. His credits include sets and costumes for Orlando in Brussels, sets for The Flying Dutchman in Bayreuth, Rigoletto in Vienna, Parsifal in Munich, world premieres of Thebans by Anderson at the English National Opera and Fin de partie by Kurtág in Milan, Wozzeck at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Bluebeard at the Komische Oper Berlin, The Marriage of Figaro in Hamburg, Don Carlo in Stuttgart, Alcina in Düsseldorf, and Falstaff in Malmö. In the 2025–2026 season, he will design the sets for The Magic Flute and The Tales of Hoffmann in Vienna, La Sonnambula in Palermo, and Faust in Munich.At the Paris National Opera: Tosca, 2014; Aida, 2021; Fin de partie, 2022.

Christof HetzerSet designer