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Gérard Wackerman

Set Designer, Costume Designer, Visual Artist
He was born in Luneville, France in 1944. He initially studied in Luneville and participated in the Mancy Festival. At first he started painting and later on decided to get involved in the world of theater. In 1969 he enrolled to the Ecole Supérieure d'art dramatique in Strasbourg. In 1971 at the State Theater of the same town he designed the set and costumes for various works, such as Catherine Dasté's L’ arbre sοrcier και Jérôme et la tortue (1971) Peter Weiss' La nuit des visiteurs and Marivaux's La dispute (1972) and Jean Giraudoux's Supplément au voyage de Cook. In 1973 he designed the sets for Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a monastery in the Toulouse Opera and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein of Stasbourg. In 1975, he designed sets and costumes for Le Dragon at the Swiss Folk Theater and in 1976 for the same one at the Municipal Theater of Annecy. He was worked on a permanent basis with the French television. He has exhibited his paintings. At GNO he designed the sets and costumes for the world premiere of Prokofiev's opera Betrothal in a monastery (Olympia Theatre, 1978/79, 1979/80). // Last update of the biography: December 2015 - The list of productions below is continually updated.