Camille Assaf is making her HGO debut as the costume designer for Il trovatore. A costume designer for opera, theater, dance, and film, she is a lead design editor at Chance, a photography magazine that looks at the world through the lens of theatrical design. She is a longtime collaborator with Il trovatore director Stephen Wadsworth, working with him on Fidelio at Santa Fe Opera, Così fan tutte in a co-production between Juilliard Opera and the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Program, Don Giovanni at Juilliard Opera, and the Beaumarchais Plays, The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, at the McCarter Theater. Her recent opera credits include Le Roman de Fauvel at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Médée for the Berlin State Opera, and Beatrice di Tenda for the Opéra de Paris. Other career highlights include Don Carlos at Basel Opera (Switzerland) and Zaza at Opera Holland Park (London). She regularly collaborates with director Marshall Pynkoski for the Opéra Royal de Versailles, designing costumes for Richard Coeur de Lion and La Caravane du Caire. In 2007, Assaf created costumes for the world premiere of Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein’s American opera Elmer Gantry, and later designed the Florentine Opera’s revival production. Additional credits include designs for Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Wolf-Ferrari’s Curious Women, both at Wolf Trap, and a touring production of Max and Moritz, which had its world premiere at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.