Luciana Gutman

Luciana Gutman is one of the important stage and costume designers of her generation. She has worked at theatres in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, France, Greece and Mexico and has created striking costume designs for a large number of operas by Giacomo Puccini (La fanciulla del West, Tosca and Manon Lescaut), Francis Poulenc (Dialogues des Carmélites), Gioacchino Rossini (Il barbiere di Siviglia and Otello), Alexander Zemlinsky (Der König Kandaules), Ernst Křenek (Johnny spielt auf), Alban Berg (Wozzeck), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (La clemenza di Tito and Le nozze di Figaro), Jules Massenet (Werther), Giuseppe Verdi (Rigoletto, Macbeth and Otello), Richard Wagner (Tristan und Isolde), Benjamin Britten (The Turning of the Screw), Igor Stravinsky (The Rake’s Progress), Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District), Luigi Dallapiccola (Il prigioniero), Mauricio Kagel (Variété), Astor Piazzolla (Maria de Buenos Aires) and others.

Luciana Gutman has won important awards, receiving the Argentine Arts Fund Prize in 2002 and a grant from the French Embassy. In 2003 she was among the narrow field nominated for the Uruguayan Florencio Sanchez Theatrical Award for her costumes for the production of Ariel Barchilón’s play Ya no está de moda tener ilusiones (Having Illusions Is out of Fashion). She has twice won the Argentine ACE Award for the best costume design of the year for the productions Dialogues des Carmélites (2003) and Le nozze di Figaro (2006). In 2006 she also won the Chilean critics award in the category of best opera production of a foreign work for her costumes for Britten’s opera The Turning of the Screw and again in 2007 for her costumes for the opera Tristan und Isolde.