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Étienne Pluss
Set designer
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Biography
Étienne Pluss ran an art gallery in Geneva before graduating in scenography from the Berlin University of the Arts in 1996. He began his career as an associate set designer with Achim Freyer and Karl-Ernst Herrmann. He has worked with directors such as George Tabori, Nadja Loschky, Claus Guth, Richard Brunel, Christof Loy, Enrico Lubbe, Adriana Altaras and Patrick Schlosser. His most recent works include the sets for Violet Snow at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Elektra at the Bonn Opera, Tristan and Isolde at the Leipzig Opera and Martha at the Frankfurt Opera.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, he designed the sets for La serva padrona at the Frankfurt Opera. In 2021, he designed the sets for Salome at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, collaborated with director Richard Brunel on Rigoletto at the Opéra national de Lorraine, with Immo Karaman on Otello at the Hanover Staatsoper and with Evgeny Titov on Macbeth at the Düsseldorf Theatre. In 2022, he will design the sets for L'Affaire Makropoulos at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Bluthaus at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Il Viaggio, Dante at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Triptyque at the Salzburg Festival, Alice in Wonderland at the Opernhaus in Zurich and On purge bébé at La Monnaie in Brussels.
For the 2022-2023 season, he has designed the sets for Don Carlo at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Turandot at the Vienna Staatsoper and Samson at the 2024 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence under the direction of Claus Guth, Hamlet at the Komische Oper Berlin and Giulio Cesare at the Frankfurt Opera under the direction of Nadja Loschky. In the 2024-2025 season, he will design the sets for Wozzeck at the Opéra national de Lyon, Ariodante at the Opéra national du Rhin, Macbeth at the Frankfurt Opera, Salomé at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and Louise at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
At the Opéra national de Paris: La Bohème, 2017; La Vestale, 2024
