About this Artist

Yoshio Yabara (costume and scenic design) received a B.A. in Linguistics in his native Japan, and studied stage design at the German state art universities in Stuttgart and West Berlin. He began his professional career as a costume designer for the Oscar-winning film The Tin Drum, directed by Volker Schlöndorf. His first work for stage was in the 1970s and early ‘80s at the Schaubühne, West Berlin, where he first met Ms. Monk and collaborated on her opera Vessel. Their subsequent collaborations include ATLAS: an opera in three parts, the feature film Book of Days, impermanence, Songs of Ascension, On Behalf of Nature, Bloodline Shrine, and Cellular Songs. Mr. Yabara has also worked as a costume designer, stage designer or art director for many theatrical production in Europe, USA and Asia, including Robert Wilson’s the CIVIL warS, King Lear, Oedipus Rex, Madamme de Sade by Tadashi Suzuki, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro produced and conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Unter Den Linden Berlin, Bin ich Schoen?, Nackt and Bliss by Doris Doerrie, among others.