Since 1992, Eva Dessecker has worked on major theater and opera stages in Vienna, Zurich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Milan, Madrid, Amsterdam, Paris, and Salzburg. Early in her career, she assisted Moidele Bickel with numerous shows at the Schaubühne in Berlin.She has also worked with Peter Stein, Robert Wilson, and Patrice Chéreau, including on Wozzeck at the Théâtre du Châtelet. Since De la maison des morts at the Salzburg Festival in 1992, she has been Klaus Michael Grüber's regular collaborator.She designed costumes for Roberto Zucco, Tagebuch eines Verschollenen at the Wiener Festwochen, Le Retour d'Ulysse dans sa patrie, Idoménée, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and Doktor Faust at the Zurich Opera. She has also worked with Luc Bondy on Le Retour by Pinter and Tartuffe at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe; with Christoph Waltz on Der Rosenkavalier in Antwerp; with Andrea Breth on Jakob Lenz in Stuttgart, Macbeth in Amsterdam, and Bluebeard's Castle/Theme and Variations at the Vienna Festival; and with Robert Wilson on Helmut Lachenmann's Little Match Girl at the Ruhrtriennale 2014.Since 2011, she has collaborated with Alvis Hermanis on the following productions: Platonov at the Akademietheater in Vienna, Arthur Schnitzler's Das weite Land (Foreign Land) at the Burgtheater, Die Geschichte von Kaspar Hauser at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich, and Les Soldats, Gawain, and Le Trouvère at the Salzburg Festival.In 2016, she finished Moidele Bickel's latest project, Manon Lescaut, directed by Andrea Breth in Amsterdam. She also worked with Claus Guth for the first time on Martinů's Juliette at Berlin's Staatsoper Unter den Linden. She designed the sets for Rihm's Jakob Lenz at the 2019 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Le Trouvère at La Scala in Milan in 2020, and more recently, Maria Stuarda at the Hamburg State Opera and Le Vaisseau fantôme at the St. Margarethen Festival. For the 2025–2026 season, she is designing costumes for Le Chevalier à la rose in Graz.At the Opéra national de Paris: De la maison des morts (2005) and La Bohème (2017).

Eva DesseckerCostume designer