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Rufus Didwiszus studied stage and costume design in Stuttgart with Prof. Jürgen Rose.
Since then, he has worked with directors such as Barrie Kosky, Thomas Ostermeier, Christian Spuck, Sasha Waltz, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and Evgeny Titov. His many designs for opera, dance and theatre include Les Brigands (Paris Opera), Pique Dame (Bayerische Staatsoper), Das Rheingold (Royal Opera House), Lessons in Love and Violince (Zürich Opera), Le Nozze de Figaro (Vienna Staatsoper), La Cage aux Folles (Komische Oper Berlin), Fiddler on the Roof (Chicago Lyric), Katya Kabanova (Salzburg Festival), Tosca (Dutch National Opera), Der Rosenkavalier (Bavarian State Opera), Orlando (Bolshoi Ballet), Boris Godunov (Zürich Opera), Le Coq d’Or (Festival d’Aix, Adelaide Festival), Sleeping Beauty (Zürich Ballet), Orphee aux enfers (Salzburg Festival), Prince Igor (Opera Bastille, Paris), Der fliegende Holländer (Deutsche Oper Berlin), La Fanciulla del West (Zürich), Medea (Royal Opera Stockholm), and Blood Wedding (Sydney Theatre Company). Together with the performance artist Joanna Dudley, he has presented his own music theatre works at the Sophiensaele Berlin, the Schaubühne Berlin and the BOZAR in Brussels.