Okarina Peter & Timo Dentler
Stage and costume design
The stage and costume designers Okarina Peter and Timo Dentler work since 1999 as a team. Their international engagments include the Stuttgart State Opera (under Klaus Zehelein), the Semperoper Dresden, the Bregenz Festival, the Schauspielhaus Zurich, the Mannheim National Theatre, the Nuremberg State Theatre, the State Theatre at Gärtnerplatz in Munich, the Karlsruhe State Theatre, the Dusseldorf Theatre, the Cologne Theatre, the Mainz State Theatre, the Wiesbaden State Theatre and the Opera Houses and Theaters of Darmstadt, Bielefeld, Augsburg, Bremerhaven, Bremen, Bern, Luzern, Luxembourg and Graz as well as the Göttingen International Handel Festival.
Recently they have been responsible for the set and costumes of „Il barbiere di Siviglia“ at the Graz Oper, „Next to normal“ at the Dortmund Opera, „Le nozze di Figaro“ at the Bonn Opera and „Titanic“ at the Bad Hersfeld Festival. With Peter Konwitschny they had outstanding succes with „Boris Godunov“ at the Nuremberg State Opera and Gothenborgs opera house and with „Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk“ at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. Further projects with Peter Konwitschny include productions in Heidelberg „Idomeneo”, Lübeck and Vienna „Boris Godunov“ and Nuremberg „Il Trovatore”. In 2009, 2011 and 2013 Okarina Peter and Timo Dentler have been nominated as best set designers and 2011 as best costume designers by the „Opernwelt magazine“ and for their production of Zemlinsky’s „Der Zwerg“ at the Chemnitz Opera they got nominations for the best set and costumes in 2016.
The artists collaborate with stage directors like: Nicholas Broadhurst, Angela Denoke, Harald Fuhrmann, Michael Heicks, Stefan Huber, Immo Karaman, Peter Konwitschny, Daniela Kranz, Nadja Loschky, Ulrich Mokrusch, Wolfgang Nägele, Volker Schlöndorff, Aron Stiehl, Tomo Sugao, Walter Sutcliffe, Christian Thausing, Manfred Weiß and Klaus Zehelein.
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Okarina Peter was a student for set and costume design of Professor Karl Kneidl starting 1994 at the Düsseldorf Arts Academy. In 1999 he became Karl Kneidl’s master student. Parallel to her studies she made several productions with Dimiter Gotscheff and Peter Zadek and worked as an assistant at the Düsseldorf Theatre, the Munich Kammerspiele and the Vienna Festival.
Timo Dentler studied the Arts at the Düsseldorf Arts Academy set and costume design with Professor Karl Kneidl from 1990 to 1999. In 1999 he became Karl Kneidl’s master student. 1996 Timo Dentler got the Markus-Lüperts award of the Dusseldorf Arts Academy. From 1992- 98 he worked as an assistant at the Berliner Ensemble, the Francfurt Opera, the Vienna festival and at the Kammerspiele Munich. In these years he made several productions with Peter Zadek.
Theatres
Theater Baden-Baden
Bad Hersfelder Festspiele
Theater Bielefeld
Oper Bonn
Copenhagen Opera House
Oper Dortmund
Semperoper Dresden
Staatsoperette Dresden
Gothenburg opera house
Händelfestspiele Göttingen
Graz Opera
Staatstheater Hannover
Theater Heidelberg
Landestheater Innsbruck
Theater Die Komödianten Kiel
Theater Klagenfurt
Oper Leipzig
Theater Lübeck
Philharmonie Luxembourg
Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen
Staatstheater Nürnberg
Theater Osnabrück
Theater Regensburg
Thêatre des Mathurins, Paris
Stadthaus Ulm
Vienna Volksoper
Staatstheater Wiesbaden