Anna Maria Heinreich è nata a Vienna, Austria, dove si è diplomata al HLMW9 Michelbeuern, Wien, frequentando contemporaneamente una scuola di formazione per sartoria femminile.
Ha vissuto per due anni in Francia dove ha studiato arte e letteratura francese. Nel 1976 si è stabilita in Italia dove ha appreso la lingua italiana e ha iniziato il lavoro nel settore del costume collaborando con Lele Luzzati e Santuzza Calì.
La sua attività di costumista negli ultimi decenni si è alternata tra teatro di prosa, opera lirica, cinema e televisione in Europa e Usa collaborando con artisti come Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Peter Stein, Chris Kraus, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Fiona Shaw, Cillian Murphy, Maddalena Crippa, Maurizio Balò.
Ha partecipato a diverse edizioni dei Salzburger Festspiele firmando, fra l’altro, i costumi per l’edizione del 75° Jedermann. Ha preso parte per la Tv francese a Marie Curie e La vie de Chateaubriand, per la televisione italiana ai cortometraggi, Esercizi di stile, regia di Mario Monicelli,e per RAI Sat, a Capitan Cosmo, per il cinema ai film: La Donna della Luna, Lettera da Parigi, Viol@.
Ha collaborato a diverse iniziative di teatro per bambini, sia a livello didattico, sia come costumista del laboratorio Piero Gabrielli. Ha tenuto lezioni per la formazione di costumisti in scuole e accademie specializzate come l’Accademia del Teatro alla Scala.
STUDI
HLMW9 Michelbeuern, Wien, Austria
Diploma in lingua e letteratura francese della Sorbonne a Parigi
Lingue straniere: tedesco, italiano, francese, inglese
BIOGRAPHY
Anna Maria Heinreich was born in Vienna, Austria, where she graduated at the HLMW9 Michelbeuern, Vienna, attending at the same time a school for women’s tailoring.
She has lived for two years in France to study French art and literature. Since 1976 she has lived in Italy where she has learnt Italian and begun to work in the field of costume with Lele Luzzati and Santuzza Calì.
In recent decades she has worked as a costume designer in prose, opera, and film productions in Europe, and in U.S. collaborating with artists like, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Peter Stein, Chris Kraus, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Fiona Shaw, Cillian Murphy, Maddalena Crippa, Maurizio Balò.
She has participated in the Salzburg Festival for years, also as costume-designer of the 75th edition of Everyman.
She has worked for the French TV in Marie Curie and La Vie de Chateaubriand, for the Italian TV in Exercises of Style, directed by Mario Monicelli, and for Rai Sat, in Captain Cosmo. She has signed the costume design of the films The Women of the Moon, Letter from Paris and Viol@.
She has also worked in children’s theatre, both as costume-designer and lecturer in the Laboratorio Piero Gabrielli. She has taught in schools and Academies for costume designers such as the Academia of the Teatro alla Scala.
STUDIES
HLMW9 Michelbeuern, Vienna, Austria
Diploma in French language and literature at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Known languages: German, Italian, French, English.
Education
Fashion & clothing – technology, Michelbeuern, Vienna, Austria.
Master in Ladies Tailoring, St Pölten, Austria.
French Literature and Culture, Sorbonne, Paris.
Languages: German, French, Italian, English.
Work as costume assistant:
Hölderlin, Peter Weiss, 1977, Ensemble Theater in Vienna, Austria
Richard Korkbein, Brendan Behan, 1978, Ensemble Theater in Vienna, Austria.
with Emanuele Luzzati and Santuzza Cali, Don Chiscotte, Film with Pino Micol.
Il Turco in Italia, Gioachino Rossini, Rossini Opera Festival, 1983 and Grand Théatre de Genève, 1985.
Il ballo in maschera, Giuseppe Verdi, conducter Claudio Abbado, with Luciano Pavarotti, Margaret Price, Wiener Staatsoper, 1986.
with Moidele Bickel, Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare, director Peter Stein, with Eros Pagni, Ralf Vallone, Maddalena Crippa, Teatro Stabile di Genova 1989.
Onkel Vania, Anton Cechov, director Peter Stein, with Remo Girone, Elisabetta Pozzi, Roberto Herlitzka, Maddalena Crippa, Teatro di Roma, 1996.
mit Cloe Obolensky, Coriolano, William Shakespeare, director Deborah Warner, with Bruno Ganz, Salzburger Festspiele, 1993.
Work as costume designer for Theatre:
Mann ist Mann, Bertold Brecht, Ensemble Theater, Vienna, 1978.
Il Signor Bonaventura, Sergio Tofano, with Marcello Bartoli, Teatro di Roma, 1988.
Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi, Teatro di Roma, 1991.
Verso Roma, Giuseppe Manfridi, scenograph and costume, Teatro di Roma, 1999.
La Lavatrice, Luigi Spagnol, with Maddalena Crippa, Teatro degli Astrusi di Montalcino, 1991.
Die Gerichtsnacht, Ulrich Braecker, Globe –Theaterevent, Producer Lukas Leuenberger, Toggenburg, Schwitzerland, 1999.
Jedermann, Hugo v. Hofmannsthal,c/o Moidele Bickel, director Gernot Friedel with Gert Voss, Fritz Muliar, Martin Benrath, Maddalena Crippa, Salzburger Festspiele, 1995. repeated until 2000, with Ulrich Tukur and Ulrich Mühe.
Sboom, Regie Christina Pezzoli, with Maddalena Crippa, Q.T. Production, 2000.
Pancomedia, Botho Strauss, director Peter Stein, Faustensemble, Berlin 2001.
Bellissima Maria, Roberto Gravosi, with Ottavia Piccolo, La Contemporanea production, 2002.
Onkel Vania, Anton Cechov, with Andrea Giordana, director Sergio Fantoni, 2003.
The Seagull, Anton Cechov, director Peter Stein, with Fiona Shaw, Cillian Murphy, Edinburgh International Festival, 2003.
Troilus and Cressida, William Shakespeare, director Peter Stein, Edinburgh International Festival, 2004.
Der zerbrochene Krug, Heinrich v. Kleist, director Peter Stein, with Klaus Maria Brandauer, Berliner Ensemble, 2008.
I Demoni, Dostojewski, director Peter Stein, Tieffe und Wallenstein GmbH, International Tour, Wiener Festwochen, 2009-2010.
King Lear, William Shakespeare, director Peter Stein, with Klaus Maria Brandauer , Burgtheater Wien, Vienna 2013.
The last Tape of Krapp, Samuel Beckett, director Peter Stein, with Klaus Maria Brandauer, Wallenstein GmbH, Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg, 2013.
Homecoming, Harold Pinter, director Peter Stein, Teatro Metastasio, Prato, 2013.
Le Prix Martin, Eugene Labiche, director Peter Stein, L’Odéon Théatre de l’Europe, Paris 2013.
Boris Godunow, Alexander Pushkin, director Peter Stein, Theater et cetera, Moskau, 2015.
Der Park, Botho Strauss, director Peter Stein, Teatro di Roma, 2015.
La dernière Bande, Samuel Beckett, director Peter Stein, with Jaques Weber, Théatre de l’Oeuvre, Paris, 2016.
Richard II, William Shakespeare, director Peter Stein, Teatro Metastasio, Prato, 2017.
Tartuffe, Molière, regia di Peter Stein, con Pierre Arditi, Jaques Weber, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Settembre 2018.
Le Misantrophe, J.B. Molière, Théâtre Libre, Paris 2019
Boris Godunow, A. Puskin, Teatr Polski, Warsawia 2019
Crise de Nerfs, 3 Farces, A. Cechov, Theatre de l’Atelier, Paris 2020
Il Compleanno, H. Pinter, Teatro Menotti, Milano 2023
Work as costume designer for Opera:
Verso Prometeo, Luigi Nono, Text Massimo Cacciari, conductor Claudio Abbado, scenic- space Renzo Piano, Light Emilio Vedova, Teatro alla Scala, Milano, 1984 and Biennale di Venezia, 1985.
Die Zauberflöte, Wolfgang A. Mozart, director Stefano Vizioli, Teatro Comunale G. Verdi di Trieste, 1992 and 1997.
L’Italiana in Algeri, Gioachino Rossini, director Stefano Vizioli, with Sonja Ganassi, William Matteuzzi, Eva Podles, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Teatro Comunale G. Verdi di Trieste, 1991.
La Sonnambula, Vincenzo Bellini, director Stefano Vizioli, Teatro Comunale di Treviso, 1993.
Il Turco in Italia, Gioachino Rossini, conductor Donato Renzetti, director Stefano Vizioli, with Lorenzo Regazzo, Sumi Jo, Teatro Comunale G. Verdi di Trieste, 1995 and for the Teatro di Pisa, 1999.
Cenerentola, Gioachino Rossini, director Stefano Vizioli, with Rockwell Blake, Sonja Ganassi, Roberto de Candia, Teatro Comunale G. Verdi di Trieste, 1993 and Opera of Philadelphia, USA, 2000.
Tristan und Isolde, Richard Wagner, director Stefano Vizioli, Teatro Comunale G. Verdi di Trieste,1996.
La fiaba di Cenerentola da La Cenerentola di Gioachino Rossini, director Stefano Vizioli, for Opera domani Bambini, Aslico, 1999.
Don Carlos, Giuseppe Verdi, director Stefano Vizioli, conductor Paolo Olmi, L’Opéra du Rhine, 1997 and for die Salzburger Kulturtage im Großen Festspielhaus Salzburg.
Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Gioachino Rossini, director Stefano Vizioli, conductor Claudio Abbado, with Cecilia Gasdia, Enzo Dara, Roberto Frontali, Ruggiero Raimondi, Ferrara Musica, 1995. Repeated p.e. l’Opera di Lausanne, 1997 and Teatro Lirico di Cagliari,1999, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris.
Norma, Vincenzo Bellini, director Stefano Vizioli, conductor Riccardo Muti, Ravenna Festival, 1999. Repeated Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 1995, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos di Lisbona, 1998, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, 1999.
Gianni Schicchi and Cavalleria Rusticana, Giacomo Puccini, director Christina Pezzoli, with Katia Ricciarelli, Festival Puccini Torre del Lago, 1998.
Tat’jana Repina, Azio Corghi, director Peter Stein, Teatro alla Scala, Milano, 2000.
Lucia Di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti, director Stefano Vizioli, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, USA, 2001.
Le Divin du Village, Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Bastien und Bastienne, Wolfgang A.Mozart , director Christian Brandauer, Lukas Leuenberger Produktion, St. Petersinsel, Swiss, 2001.
Parsifal, Richard Wagner, director Peter Stein, conductor Claudio Abbado, with Violetta Urmana, Osterfestspiele Salzburg, 2002. Repeated for Edinburgh International Festival, 2002.
L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Claudio Monteverdi, director Bernard Sobel, conductor William Christi, Opéra de Lyon, 2003.
Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini, director Stefano Vizioli, with Daniela Dessi, Teatro Massimo di Palermo and Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, 2003.
Acis and Galatea, G.F. Händel, director Stefano Vizioli, Teatro Verdi di Pisa, 2004, Teatro don Pedro di Macau, 2011.
Il Cordovano, Goffredo Petrassi, conductor Marcello Panni, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, 2004.
Cavalleria rusticana, Pietro Mascagni, director Stefano Vizioli, conductor Marcello Panni, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, 2004.
Simon Boccanegra, Giuseppe Verdi, director Stefano Vizioli, Opera of Santa Fe, 2004.
Motezuma, Antonio Vivaldi, director Stefano Vizioli, Dirigent Alain Curtis, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos di Lisbona 2005.
Semiramide, Gioachino Rossini, director Stefano Vizioli, Teatro Verdi di Pisa, 2005
Falstaff, Giuseppe Verdi , director Stefano Vizioli, Teatro Verdi di Pisa, 2006
Sansone e Dalila, Camille Saint-Saëns, director Stefano Vizioli, Festspiele Sankt Gallen 2007.
Fidelio, Ludwig van Beethoven, director Chris Kraus, conductor Claudio Abbado, coproduction of Teatro di Reggio Emilia and Teatro Real di Madrid, 2008.
Tschaikowski Zyklus Mazeppa, Eugenio Onegin , Pique Dame,
director Peter Stein, L’Opéra de Lyon, from 2004 to 2010.
Herzog Blaubart’s Schloss, Bela Bartok and
Il Prigioniero, Luigi della Piccola, director Peter Stein, Teatro alla Scala, Milano, 2008, repeated for Nederlands Opera, Amsterdam, 2010.
Nos, Dimitri Shostakovich, director Peter Stein, conductor Ingo Metzmacher, Opernhaus Zürich, 2011.
Macbeth, Giuseppe Verdi, director Peter Stein, conductor Riccardo Muti, Salzburger Festspiele, 2011.
Luisa Miller, Giuseppe Verdi, director Stefano Vizioli, Malmö Opera, 2012.
Orontea, Antonio Cesti, director Stefano Vizioli, Festival der Alten Musik, Innsbruck 2013.
Don Carlo, Giuseppe Verdi, director Peter Stein, with Jonas Kaufmann, Salzburger Festspiele, 2013, repeated at Teatro alla Scala, Milano, 2017.
Fierrabras, Franz Schubert, director Peter Stein, conductor Ingo Metzmacher, with Michael Schade, Dorothea Röschmann, Salzburger Festspiele, 2014.
I due Foscari, Giuseppe Verdi, director Stefano Vizioli, Théâtre du Capitole, Tolosa, 2014.
Věc Makropulos, Leoš Janáček, director Peter Stein, with Laura Aikin, Wiener Staatsoper, 2015.
Die Zauberföte, Wolfgang A. Mozart, director Peter Stein, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2016.
Le Nozze di Figaro, Wolfgang A. Mozart, director Peter Stein, Malmö Opera, 2016.
La Dori, Pietro Antonio Cesti, director Stefano Vizioli, Festival ndr Alten Musik, Innsbruck, 2019.
Werther, Jules Massenet, director Stefano Vizioli, Teatro Sociale di Como, 2020.
L’Olimpiade, A. Vivaldi, director Stefano Vizioli, Festival Der Alten Musik, Innsbruck, 2023
Work for Film and Television:
La vie de Chateaubriand, ital. participation, Ital.-Franc. Co-Production,
Antenne 2, with Francoise Huster.
Marie Curie, ital. participation, FR3 France, with Marie-Christine Barrault.
Il gioco delle Ombre, director Stefano Gabrini.
Capitan Cosmo, director Carlo Carlei, with Walter Chiari, Rai Sat.
La donna della Luna, director Vito Zagarrio, with Greta Scacchi,
Gierre Film.
Lettera da Parigi, director Fabrizio Giordani, with Irene Papas, Lucrezia Lante della Rovere. Esercizi di Stil, Short series, director Mario Monicelli, Alex Infacelli , with Massimo Wertmüller, Elena Sophia Ricci, presented at the Biennale Cinema di Venezia.
Viol@, director Donatella Majorca, with Stefania Rocca, presented at the Biennale Cinema di Venezia.
Pedagogical activity:
Guest lecturer for Theatre schools and Childrentheatres, p.e. Max Reinhardtseminar, Vienna.
Since 2009 Guest lecturer for Costume design at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, Milan.