She was born in Prague to a French father and Chilean-German mother, and began her career as a costume designer in the Berlin Opera.
Berlin | opera | Metropolitan Opera | Royal Opera House | Berlin Wall | Sydney Opera House | West Berlin | Vienna State Opera | Humboldt University of Berlin | Irving Berlin | San Francisco Opera | New York City Opera | East Berlin | The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) | The Threepenny Opera | Opera | Free University of Berlin | Berlin Philharmonic | Doctors (soap opera) | Falstaff (opera) | Paris Opera | Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin | Royal Swedish Opera | Opera Australia | Deutsche Oper Berlin | Lyric Opera of Chicago | Boris Godunov (opera) | The Beggar's Opera | Tannhäuser (opera) | Santa Fe Opera |