During the 2025-26 season at HGO, Stephanie Engeln serves as co-set designer for Messiah. Previously for the company, she was the set designer for Turandot (2022). Next spring , she will wrap up a collaboration on a book about Wilson’s projects from 2011 up to his last theatrical creations together with Paris-based ARTS ARENA. She currently works on the set designs of Wagner’s "Tristan and Isolde" conceived but not finished by Wilson in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The Production will open in February 2026 and be shown at various European venues until 2030. Based in Yonkers, New York, she has created scenic designs for both opera and theater since 1985. The Magic Flute, her first opera with Robert Wilson, was created and performed at the Paris Opera in 1991. During the 2024-25 season, Engeln was the set designer of 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 she 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 exhibition 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.
Co-Set Designer:
TURANDOT 2021-22