Jérôme Kaplan

Jérôme Kaplan (1964) was born in Paris and studied set design at the École de la Rue Blanche (ENSATT). In 1992, he collaborated for the first time with Les Ballets de Monte Carlo for Jeroen Verbruggen’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. For the same company, he subsequently created sets and costumes for various productions, including Roméo et Juliette, Cinderella, and Sheherazade. Additionally, he designed sets and costumes for prominent European ballet companies such as the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.

Kaplan also built a career outside Europe: in 2001, he became the first French costume designer at the National Ballet of China, where he created costumes for Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern. Since 2010, he has regularly collaborated with choreographer Alexei Ratmansky. Kaplan designed the sets and costumes for Ratmansky’s Lost Illusions for the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow (for which Kaplan won a Golden Mask Award for costume design in 2012), Cinderella for The Australian Ballet, Swan Lake for Ballett Zürich, La Bayadère for Staatsballett Berlin, and the highly acclaimed production of Don Quixote that Ratmansky created for Dutch National Ballet in 2010. He also designed the sets and costumes for Ratmansky’s The Fairy’s Kiss in 2017.

Last update: 16 May 2024