Marie-Jeanne Lecca studied at the Beaux Arts Institute in her hometown of Bucha- rest and now lives in London. She received the Martinu Medal for Julietta and The Greek Passion, was nominated by Opernwelt magazine as Costume Designer of the Year for Maskerade, received a BAFTA nomination for Amahl and the Night Visitors and was part of the British team that won the Prague Quadrennial’s Golden Triga. She has collaborated with Sir David Pountney on numerous productions, designing costumes for Wagner’s Ring Cycle (Lyric Opera, Chicago), Rusalka (Santa Fe), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Oper Leipzig), Manon Lescaut and Francesca da Rimini (La Scala, Milan), Pierrot Lunaire and Seven Deadly Sins (sets and costumes, Strasbourg), The Magic Flute (costume and puppet designer, Bregenzer Festspiele,), The Greek Passion (ROH Covent Garden; Brno; Bregenz), Les Vepres Siciliennes (costume and puppet designer, Welsh National Opera; Opernhaus Bonn), Un Ballo in Maschera (costume and puppet designer, Zurich), Moses und Aron, Katya Kabanova, Faust (Bayerische Staatsoper), Macbeth, Die Frau ohne Schatten, La Juive, Agrippina (Zurich), Die Soldaten (Ruhr Festival and Lincoln Center Festival), War and Peace, Pelléas et Mélisande, Khovanshchina (Welsh National Opera), Jenufa, Rienzi (Wiener Staatsoper), and most recently Dalibor (Brno), Masque of Might (Opera North), and The Excursions of Mr Broucek (Grange Park Opera). For Warsaw’s Teatr Wielki she designed the costumes for Krol Roger (Bregenzer Fest- spiele, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona), The Passenger (Bregenzer Festspiele; ENO; Madrid; Lincoln Centre Festival; Houston; Chicago Lyric; New Israeli Opera), William Tell (Welsh National Opera), and The Haunted Manor.
(photo: K. Fos)
