Graduated at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. She has been designing costumes all over Europe for numerous theatre, opera, musical and film-productions. In musical and opera her credits include: De Jantjes (Stageentertainment), Lohengrin (Landestheater Tirol), Rusalka and Tsar Saltan (Opera Zuid). Much acclaimed is het work with the 'Dreamteam' of the International Opera Productions together with Karel Spanhak en Marc Krone. They produced several unique international traveling opera productions. For the theatre she designed more than 60 shows including Midsummernightsdream, Peyton Place, Anne Frank and Troyan Women. Marrit van der Burgt Costume designer She designed for numerous films and installations of Peter Greenaway, like his openings show GOLD in Frankfurter Stattteater and for World EXPO 2008 'Blue Planet' (in Zaragossa, Rome, Milan, Tokio). This was considered to be the best production of the expo. In Lille (Cultural Capital of Europe) she did "Wash and travel". In Genova and Napels grand installation ‘The children of uranium" And Greenaway's films Nightwatching (nominated for best costume-design) and Goltzius and the Pelican company. Other film-credits include Isabelle Costantini’s Les lettres de Julia, Koning van Katoren by Ben Sombogaart, Bennie Stout by Johan Nijenhuis and Shock head soul by Simon Pummel. Marrit van der Burgt's speciality is working with unusual materials, and the use of beautiful colours used in both extreme and subtile ways. She has a special talent for, after extensive research and preparation being able to improvise on the spot in close cooperation with the director. 28
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