
CLARISSE MAYLUNAS
DESIGNER FOR
Opera
Theatre
Dance
Exhibitions
Interior
Costume Designer ,Stage Designer ,Exhibition Designer ,Interior Designer ,Sculptor, based in Vienna.
Clarisse Maylunas has worked on several first time ever performances of lyric opera with composers such as O.M. Zykan, H.K. Gruber, K. Schwertsik, C. Muthspiel, G.v. Einem, G. Battiselli, Kaufmann, G. Kühr …She also created costumes for classical opera and ballet, such as „Don Giovanni“, „La Cenerentola“,” Hänsel and Gretel” or the ballet „Giselle“ still performed at Vienna Opera for over 20 years, and for many contemporary dance performances by Ismael Ivo, Elio Gervasi , Liz King ….Furthermore she created costumes for the musicals „The Cabaret“, „Guys and Dolls“ and recreated the Vienna production of „The Beauty and the Beast“ and Vienna and Amsterdam production of „Les Miserables“.
She has continuosly worked with the Vienna Ensemble under Karl Welunschek, staging dramas by Shakespeare, Nestroy etc..
Drama work also includes a series of plays by Thomas Bernhard, staged in Frankfurt, aswell as „The Birds“ by Aristophanes – Jonke, „Effi Briest“ by T. Fontane in Berlin etc….
Exhibitions include „Musica Femina“ about female composers at the Orangerie of Schönbrunn Palace and again in Bregenz, and an exhibition about D’Annunzio, which travelled all over Italy.
She has also created interior designs for Castle Sayn- Wittgenstein on the Rhine, for a Hotel in Isola Farnese near Rome and for several flats in Vienna.
Clarisse Maylunas has lectured history of costume and scenic realisation of costume at the Max Reinhardt-Seminar, University of Vienna for the last 10 years.