KCRW Berlin Amplified: Leitmotifs | Opera set designer Marsha Ginsberg on her career and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Show Notes

Opera singer Fredrika Brillembourg speaks with Marsha Ginsberg, a set and costume designer for opera and theater. Brillembourg caught up with Ginsberg while she was working with the Deutsche Oper Berlin on her sets for a new production of Benjamin Britten’s opera, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” a co-production with Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier which will open at the Deutsche Oper in 2020.

Brillembourg talks with Ginsberg about her beginnings as an artist and what brought her to opera set design.

Produced by Monika Müller-Kroll 

What is KCRW Berlin Amplified: Leitmotifs ?

A monthly podcast hosted by opera singer Fredrika Brillembourg featuring interviews with musicians and other prominent figures from the world of opera and classical music. The conversations touch on each guest’s original attraction to classical music, talk about their connection to Berlin, and explore each guest’s “leitmotif," or the one thing that brings them back to the refrain over and over again.