Bernd Purkrabek

Bernd Purkrabek

Lighting designer

Austrian lighting designer Bernd Purkrabek is active in the fields of dance, theatre and opera. He regularly collaborates with directors such as Christof Loy, Claus Guth, Tobias Kratzer, Pierre Audi, Jetske Mijnssen, Ted Huffman and Mariame Clément, at prestigious opera houses and festivals such as Opernhaus Zurich, Teatro Real Madrid, La Monnaie Brussels, Wiener Staatsoper, Glyndebourne Festival and Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. For Dutch National Opera, he previously created the lighting designs for Les vêpres siciliennes (2010), Der Rosenkavalier (2015), Pique Dame (2016), Jephtha (2016), Eine florentinische Tragödie + Gianni Schicchi (2017), La morte d'Orfeo (2018), Les contes d'Hoffmann (2018) and Caruso a Cuba (2019).