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Klaus Bruns (born 1962 in Mülheim an der Ruhr) is a German stage and costume designer.
Klaus Bruns studied stage design and costume design at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since then he has worked as a costume designer for drama and opera. In the acting he worked among others at the theaters of Graz, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig, Stuttgart and Zurich, at the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Schaubühne and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, the Residenztheater and the Kammerspiele in Munich. He has worked with a number of directors and has worked closely with Karin Henkel.
He also worked in the opera and worked with the directors Götz Friedrich, Kirsten Harms, Harry Kupfer, Damiano Michieletto and Peter Mussbach at the three Berlin opera houses, at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, at the Teatro Regio of Turin, at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro as well as at the opera houses of Amsterdam and Antwerp, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Mannheim. For several years he has worked closely with Barrie Kosky in drama and opera:
- Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungen at the Hanover State Opera
- Strindberg's dream play at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
- Shakespeare's merchant from Venice at the Schauspiel Frankfurt
- Rusalka, Moses and Aron and Eugen Onegin at the Komische Oper Berlin
- La fanciulla del West and Macbeth at the Zurich Opera
- The fiery angel at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as well
- Wagner's The Mastersingers of Nuremberg at the Bayreuth Festival.