HILDEGARD BECHTLER
set and costume designer
Hildegard Bechtler was born in Stuttgart, trained at Camberwell and Central St. Martin’s Schools, lives in London and works internationally in theatre, ballet and opera.
Hildegard won an Olivier Award for her design of After the Dance at the National Theatre and received nominations for Top Hat and Oresteia. She was nominated for the Evening Standard Best Designer Award for Iphigenia at Aulis and won the Australian Green Room Award for Best Opera Design for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Sydney Opera House.
View a complete list of Hildegard’s opera designs here.
HAMLET
By William Shakespeare
Almeida Theatre + West End | Dir. Robert Icke
Photos: Manuel Harlan
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
By William Shakespeare
National Theatre | Dir. Simon Godwin
Photos: Johan Persson
MARY STUART
By Friedrich Schiller in a new adaptation by Robert Icke
Almeida Theatre + West End | Dir. Robert Icke
Photos: Manuel Harlan
THE CELLIST
Choreography by Cathy Marston
Royal Ballet
Photos: Bill Cooper ©2020 ROH
A TASTE OF HONEY
by Shelagh Delaney
West End | Dir. Bijan Sheibani
Photos: Marc Brenner
OEDIPUS
by Robert Icke after Sophocles
Toneelgroep Amsterdam | Dir. Robert Icke
Photos: Jan Versweyveld
THE DOCTOR
Adapted by Robert Icke from Arthur Schnitzler’s PROFESSOR BERNHARD
Almeida Theatre | Dir. Robert Icke
Photos: Manuel Harlan
THREE SISTERS
by Anton Checkov in a version by Cordelia Lynn
Almeida Theatre | Dir. Rebecca Frecknall
Photos: Marc Brenner
Creating the set for HANSARD (National Theatre, 2019):
