Greta Goiris

costume designer

Greta Goiris studied costume design in Antwerp and set design in Barcelona in the early 1990s. She has collaborated with directors including Josse De Pauw, Karin Beier, Pierre Audi, Ivo van Hove, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Since 2001, she has worked as a costume designer with Johan Simons on numerous music-theater productions and operas, including Sentimenti, Das Leben ein Traum, Die Vergessene Strasse (all for the Ruhrtriennale); Die Perser (Munich Kammerspiele), Die Jüdin von Toledo, King Lear, Ödipus, Herrscher (Schauspielhaus Bochum); Richard II, Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald, Dämonen, Dantons Tod (Vienna Burgtheater); Fidelio (Opéra de la Bastille, 2008); Herzog Blaubarts Burg (Salzburg Festival, 2008), Alceste (Ruhrtriennale, 2016); Don Carlos (Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, 2019), Alcestis (Athens Epidaurus Festival, 2022); and Die Zauberflöte (Royal Theatre of La Monnaie, 2005). Her long collaboration with William Kentridge includes the operas The Nose (Metropolitan Opera, 2010), Lulu (Dutch National Opera/Metropolitan Opera/English National Opera, 2015), Wozzeck (Salzburg Festival/Metropolitan Opera/Sydney Opera House, 2017), and music-theater productions Refuse the Hour (Holland Festival/ Festival d’Avignon), The Refusal of Time (Documenta Kassel), Winterreise (Vienna Festival), More Sweetly Play the Dance (Eye Filmmuseum – Amsterdam), O Sentimental Machine (Istanbul Biennal), The Head & the Load (Tate Modern/ Ruhrtriennale/Park Avenue Armory, 2018), and Waiting for the Sibyl (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, 2019). Goiris also designed costumes and puppets for the film Oh To Believe in Another World (Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, 2023).