Brigitte Reiffenstuel

Brigitte Reiffenstuel was born in Munich and studied at the London College of Fashion and Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design. She is based in London and works internationally. Most recent costume designs include the world premieres of Stranger Things (West End) and of Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt (West End and Broadway), Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (Salzburg Festival), and Fedora (Metropolitan Opera, New York). Other theatre work includes Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre), Light In The Piazza (Royal Festival Hall, London, Los Angeles and Chicago), Twelfth Night (Young Vic), Kiss Me Kate (Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris). She designed the costumes for the acclaimed Kate Bush Before the Dawn concerts in London. In opera, she has designed costumes for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, La Scala, Milan, Opéra Bastille, the Bavarian State Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, the Komische Oper and Deutsche Oper in Berlin; and for opera houses in Madrid, Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Tel Aviv, Sydney, Tokyo, South Korea, and many others. She has won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Costume; the Oscar della Lirica award for achievement in costume design; and the 2023 Tony Award for best costume design of a play.