Mercè Paloma studied art history at the University of Barcelona. She works regularly with Calixto Bieito.
She has designed the costumes for Comédies barbares at the Edinburgh Festival; Life Is a Dream in Barcelona and Edinburgh; The House of Bernarda Alba, El Barberillo de Lavapiés, and The Tempest in Madrid; Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the Salzburg Festival; Pierrot lunaire in Barcelona; Così fan tutte and The Bat at Welsh National Opera; Don Giovanni and Un ballo in maschera at English National Opera and the Royal Danish Opera; The Abduction from the Seraglio at the Komische Oper Berlin; Pagliacci and Cavalleria rusticana at the Hanover State Opera; The Girl of the Golden West at the Stuttgart State Theatre; Tosca, Wozzeck, Un ballo in maschera, and La Cabeza del Bautista at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Love Life in Freiburg; El Pintor by Colomer at the Teatro Real in Madrid; Lohengrin in Chemnitz; Il trovatore in Helsinki; Parsifal in Stuttgart; and Carmen in Oslo, San Francisco, Budapest, Palermo, Vienna…
She also works for Spanish and Catalan cinema and television. She received the 2007 Barcelona Critics’ Theatre Award and the Gaudí Film Award for Pa negre, Stella cadente, La vampira de Barcelona, and El fotógrafo de Mauthausen.
At the Paris Opera: Carmen, 2017

Mercè PalomaCostume designer