Marie-Jeanne Lecca

Marie-Jeanne was born in Bucharest, where she studied at the Beaux Arts Institute and now lives in London. She received the Martinu Medal for Julietta and The Greek Passion, was nominated by Opernwelt magazine as Costume Designer of the Year for Maskerade, received a BAFTA nomination for Amahl and the Night Visitors and was part of the British team that won the Prague Quadriennale's Golden Triga .

She has collaborated with Sir David Pountney on numerous productions designing costumes for Wagner's RING CYCLE (Lyric Opera, Chicago), RUSALKA (Santa Fe),  DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG (Oper Leipzig), MANON LESCAUT and FRANCESCA DA RIMINI (La Scala, Milan), PIERROT LUNAIRE and SEVEN DEADLY SINS (Sets & Costumes, Strasbourg),THE MAGIC FLUTE (Bregenzer Festspiele- Costume & Puppet Designer), THE GREEK PASSION ( ROH Covent Garden/Brno/Bregenz), LES VEPRES SICILIENNES (Welsh National Opera and Opernhaus Bonn- Costume & Puppet designer), UN BALLO IN MASCHERA ( W.N.O and Bonn, Costume & Puppet designer), MOSES UND ARON, KATYA KABANOVA, FAUST (Bayerische Staatsoper), MACBETH, DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN, LA JUIVE, AGRIPPINA (Zurich), DIE SOLDATEN (Ruhr Festival and Lincoln Center Festival), WAR AND PEACE, LULU, PELLEAS ET MELISANDE, KHOVANSCHINA (Welsh National Opera), KROL ROGER (Bregenzer Festspiele,Warsaw, Barcelona), THE PASSENGER (Bregenzer Festspiele, ENO, Warsaw, Madrid,Lincoln Centre Festival , Houston , Chicago Lyric, New Israeli Opera), WILHELM TELL ( Welsh National Opera,Warsaw), THE HAUNTED MANOR (Warsaw) JENUFA, RIENZI (Wiener Staatsoper) and most recently THE BLACK MASK (Warsaw Teatr Wielky), DALIBOR (Brno), MASQUE OF MIGHT (Opera North ) and THE EXCURSIONS PF MR BROUCEK (Grange Park Opera).

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