CARMELA WAGER
Stage & costume designer
 Nowadays resident in Turku, Carmela Wager is one of Finland's most experienced stage and costumer designers. She has designed the sets and/or costumes for sixty opera, operetta, ballet, musical, theatre, concert and TV productions in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and the Czech Republic. She has also worked with opera at the Finnish National Opera (The Barber of Seville, Dido and Aeneas and the ballet It's Jazz), at the Royal Opera in Stockholm (Viva la Mamma and the ballet Orfeus i Sta'n), at the Savonlinna Opera Festival/Retretti (Orpheus in the Underworld and Britten's The Rape of Lucretia), at Aholansaari in Nilsiä (The Last Temptations 2000-2003) and at the Lahti, Vaasa and Pori operas (such works as The Cunning Little Vixen, The Magic Flute, Rigoletto and the Moomin Opera).
For the spoken theatre Carmela Wager has designed sets and costumes for, among others, the Finnish National Theatre, the Svenska Teatern, the Åbo Svenska Teater and the Lahti City Theatre, and during the years (1994-2000) she spent in Sweden in Stockholm, Borås (guest contract 1997-1998), Falun and Uppsala. Among her most recent works have been Albert Herring for Vantaa Opera, Rigoletto, the Moomin Opera and Paavo the Great for Turku Opera, The Barber of Seville for the Finnish Chamber Opera, the joint TPO and ERI Dance Theatre Stravinsky production Scandal!, and Don Giovanni in the Czech Republic.
For this autumn the ERI Dance Theatre has engaged her to design the sets and costumes for the ballets The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin by Béla Bartók to be staged in collaboration with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. These will be followed next year by a Turku production of Don Giovanni in honour of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.
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