Backstage

Make-up

Susanne Rader

The actress and singer got her education at the Vienna Prayer Konservatorium. She has performed at the Volkstheater Graz, the Ensemble Theater Wien, the Theater der Jugend, and the Ronacher and played major roles in productions, such as „The Little Shop of Horrors“, „The White Horse Inn“ or „Bel Ami“. Additionally, she has sung at numerous concerts and staged her own productions, among others with her group, the Vienna Swing Sisters. For Opera al Dente, she goes backstage and makes sure the ensemble performs in proper style.

Equipment

Petra Fibich

The Viennese designer and decorator has already equipped numerous theatre productions and events with the certain something. She equipped productions, such as „Beatles on board“, „Pocahontas“, „Non(n)sense“, „The little Prince“, „High School Musical“, but also the Ball of Commerce Vienna in the Hofburg, with atmosphere and style. Her decorative design for Opera al Dente renders makes the scene come alive and helps to create a broad spectrum of emotions.

Whigs

Markus Güpner

Top stylist and owner oft he Vienna City Salon SEVEN P was born in Vienna, works for the magazin WOMAN and will soon be engaged for a new Austrian luxury line. Markus Güpner is not only a hearstylist by passion, but also a visionary and instructor, who helps out a lot of (female) customers with his „do-it-yourself“ seminars around styling. For Opera al Dente, he has created the new avant-garde whig style thus impressingly combining historical rokoko style with the trends of today.

Costumes

Yvonne Moser

Student of the renowned Vienna School of Fashion in the Palais Hetzendorf, where she will graduate in 2011. For Opera al Dente, she took up the challenge to design modern costumes with a touch of Rokoko. Costumes that are a pleasure to look at but that alo fulfill all practical aspects of a modern theatre producion.

„I have always been fascinated by the Rokoko and got my inspiration for the costumes from various museums and books on Marie Antoinette“

Yvonne Moser’s design determines the new, bold and still sophisticated design of Opera al Dente.

Director

Alexandra Frankmann-Koepp

The choreographer and director received her eduation in the „Tanz Forum Vienna“, the „Theater an der Wien“ and the Art Educational School in London. Besides numerous personal appearances, she also teaches Jazz and Musical Dance in the Tanz Forum Wien, Musical Repertoire at the University for Music & Performing Arts, has her own class at the Conservatory of Vienna, and has received the cultural award of the City of Baden. Alexandra Frankmann-Koepp has produced a broad range of choreograhpies, from Aida for the internationally renowned Opera Festival St. Margareten to the Trojan Boat at the Vienna Burgtheater. Her stage direction for Opera al Dente combines the amorous with the humorous, history with extravaganza and thus helps turn the evening into a truly sumptuous feast.