Jérôme Kaplan

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

He also built a career outside Europe: in 2001, he became the first French costume designer for the National Ballet of China, where he created costumes for Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern, and since 2010, he has regularly collaborated with Alexei Ratmansky. Kaplan provided the set and costume design 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 successful 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 and 2024.

Last update: 11-06-2024