He was born in Germany. He has worked for international festivals, theaters, contemporary music performances, opera houses, as well as with artists in various fields. He has collaborated in a wide repertory of opera productions in lyric theaters in numerous cities worldwide, such as: Berlin, Tokyo, Vienna, San Francisco, Houston, New York, Dallas, London, Paris, Geneva, Barcelona, Moscow, Rome, Milan, Torino, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Hamburg. He also designed the lighting for the festivals Bregenz, Aldeburgh, Vienna and Moscow. He has worked with director David Olden in the productions of Un ballo in maschera, Tristan und Isolde, Ariodante, Faust and La damnation de Faust. In 1997 he was nominated for the Lawrence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera for his work in Tristan und Isolde (English National Opera) and Tippet’s Midsummer Marriage (Royal Opera Covent Garden). His production of Schnitzler`s Le chemin solitaire won the French award “Molière for best production”, while he also won the “Olivier Award for Best production” for the lighting design in the operas Paul Bunyan and Tristan und Isolde, and the Evening Standard Award for the lighting design in the operas King Arthur and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. During 1999-2001 he taught lighting design at the Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich. He worked with the GNO as lighting designer in the opera Simon Boccanegra, staged at the Athens Concert Hall in the 2007/08 season. // Last update of the biography: March 2020 - The list of the productions below is complete.