After studying in Munich, Petra Reinhardt worked as an assistant (sets, costumes and stage management) at the Hamburg Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Staatstheater in Stuttgart, the Opéra national du Rhin, the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and many others. She also works for film, television and theater. She designed the costumes for The Secret Marriage, Pollicino and The Barber of Seville at the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich. She later collaborated with Peter Pabst on costumes for the film Mario und der Zauberer, directed by Klaus Maria Brandauer. She designed the costumes for Werther at the Vienna Staatsoper. She worked again with Klaus Maria Brandauer for L'Opéra de quat'sous in Berlin and Lohengrin in Cologne. She has worked with William Friedkin (Salomé and Das Gehege at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich), José Cura (La commedia è finita in Fiume and Un bal masqué in Cologne), Johannes Schaaf (La Chauve-souris in Amsterdam, Tosca at the Semperoper in Dresden, Respighi's Marie Victoire at Berlin's Deutsche Oper), Chen Shi-Zheng (Adieu ma concubine in Beijing and Nixon in China at Théâtre du Châtelet), Fanny Ardant (Mzsensk's Lady Macbeth at Greek National Opera, costumes co-designed with Milena Canonero). She regularly collaborates with Robert Carsen (The Magic Flute at Baden-Baden, Battistelli's CO2 and La Fille du Far-West at La Scala in Milan, Les Fêtes vénitiennes at Opéra Comique, Don Carlo at Opéra national du Rhin and La Fenice in Venice, L'Orfeo in Lausanne, The Beggar's Opera at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, La Ville morte at Komische Oper in Berlin, La Tempête at Comédie-Française). She designed the costumes for Adrian Noble's Les Capulet et les Montaigu at La Scala in Milan and, with director Claus Guth, Bluthaus at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and Don Carlo in Naples. This season, she designed the costumes for Siegfried and Le Crépuscule des dieux, directed by Pierre Audi at La Monnaie in Brussels.At Opéra national de Paris: The Magic Flute, 2014

Petra ReinhardtCostume designer