Artist Bio

(Bio as of March 2012)

Rebecca Ringst most recently collaborated with the Goodman on Camino Real during the 2011/2012 Season. Ms. Ringst is a Berlin-based designer of theater and opera sets. She frequently collaborates with director Calixto Bieito, and has designed scenery for his productions of The Flying Dutchman at Staatstheater Stuttgart, Armida at Komische Oper Berlin, La Vida Breve at Theater Freiburg, Aida at Theater Basel, Don Carlos at the Nationaltheatre Mannheim, Le Gran Macabre at Theatre Freiburg and Fidelio at the Bayerische Staatsoper, among many others. She has worked extensively throughout Europe and frequently collaborates with directors Elisabeth Stöppler and Stefan Herheim. In 2009, she created the set design for Stefan Herheim’s staging of Der Rosenkavalier at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, for which she received the Opernwelt Award and was named Best European Stage Designer of 2010. Ms. Ringst studied stage design at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Dresden, Germany.