During the 2025-26 season at HGO, Stephanie Engeln serves as co-set designer for Messiah. Previously for the company, she served as the set designer for Turandot (2022). Based in Yonkers, New York, she has created scenic designs for both opera and theater since 1985. The Magic Flute, her first opera with the late Robert Wilson, was created and performed at the Paris Opera in 1991. This season, Engeln finalized a collaboration on a book about Wilson’s projects, covering the period from 2011 until his last theatrical creations with Paris-based ARTS ARENA. She also worked on the set designs for Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, which was conceived, but not finished, by Wilson in Ljubljana, Slovenia; opened in February 2026; and will be shown at various European venues through 2030. During the 2024-25 season, Engeln was the set designer for Turandot with the Lithuanian National Opera and Theatre. Past projects include Madame Butterfly; the gospel opera The Temptations of St. Anthony by Bernice Reagon and Wilson; Pelleas et Melisande; Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung by Bela Bartok and Arnold Schoenberg; Oedipus Rex; Lohengrin; The White Raven, an opera by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson; Parsifal; and Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber. In a career spanning 40 years, Engeln has worked on a great variety of artistic projects. Besides theater and opera projects with Japanese directors Keisuke Suzuki and Takahiro Ito, she worked with German artist Gabriele Henkel and Robert Wilson on museum exhibitions and art installations, architectural projects, and object and furniture design. She also has created numerous event concepts, interior designs, and graphic design projects. She studied interior architecture and design in Germany.