“Each story contains other stories, so all of these tales are contained within other, nested, narrative frames, extending out from the beginning of time.” Douglas J. Penick
Water Serpents
MINARDSCHOUBURG 2008
CHOREOGRAPHER | SYLVIE VAN HULLE
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
Fallen Thoughts
STUDIO ECLIPSE 2012
CONCEPT | SATYA ROOSENS
CHOREOGRAPHER | SATYA ROOSENS
MUSIC COMPOSITION | ANANTA ROSSENS
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
SET DESIGNER | KURT DEMEY
LIGHTING DESIGNER & RIGGING | YVES FAUCHER
D’Effect
PASSERELLE VZW 2018
CONCEPT | LISI ESTARAS
CHOREOGRAPHER | LISI ESTARAS
SOUNDSCAPE| BART UYTTERSPROT
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
MUSIC | ARIEL EBERSTEIN
LIGHTING DESIGNER | HELMUT VAN DEN MEERSSCHAUT
Snappiniex
KDANS 2010
CONCEPT | KATJA CLOETENS
CHOREOGRAPHER | KATJA CLOETENS
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
Così fan tutte
NEDERLANDSE REISOPERA 2015/2016
CONDUCTOR | ARNAUD OOSTERBAAN
STAGE DIRECTOR | XANDER STRAAT
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
SET DESIGNER | MARC WARNING
LIGHTING DESIGNER | URI RAPAPORT
Figaro in four quartets
Inspired by music from Le nozze di Figaro by W. A. Mozart and poems by T. S. Eliot
NEDERLANDSE REISOPERA 2011/2012
CONDUCTOR| MARTIN NAGASHIMA TOFT
STAGE DIRECTOR | TIMOTHY NELSON
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
SET DESIGNER | TIMOTHY NELSON
LIGHTING DESIGNER | BAS BERENSEN
Les Pêcheurs de perles
NEDERLANDSE REISOPERA 2014/2015
CONDUCTOR | BENJAMIN LEVY
STAGE DIRECTOR | TIMOTHY NELSON
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
SET DESIGNER | WIKKE VAN HOUWELINGEN
LIGHTING DESIGNER | GÉ WEGMAN
CHOREOGRAPHER | JITTI CHOMPEE
Edelwild
Inspired by Arianna A Naxos (J. Haydn) ~ Isola Disabitata (J. Haydn)
OPERAWERF 2022
CONDUCTOR | FLORESTAN BATAILLIE
STAGE DIRECTOR | MIEN BOGAERT
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
SET DESIGNER | MIEN BOGAERT
LIGHTING DESIGNER | MIEN BOGAERT
Opstand
Inspired by La Serva Padrona – G. B. Pergolesi
L’artigiano Gentiluomo – J.A. Hasse
OPERAWERF 2019
CONDUCTOR | LINDE DEMUYNCK
STAGE DIRECTOR | MIEN BOGAERT
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
SET DESIGNER | MIEN BOGAERT
LIGHTING DESIGNER | MIEN BOGAERT
Victor Hugo Project
Inspired by music from F. Liszt, G. Fauré, C. Saint-Saënt, Rigoletto by Verdi and Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
FLANDERS OPERASTUDIO 2010
CONDUCTOR | HEIN BOTERBERG
STAGE DIRECTOR | VINCENT VAN DEN ELSHOUT
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
LIGHTING DESIGNER | BENNERT VANCOTTEM
TECHNICAL SUPPORT SET | JEAN-PIERRE VERKIMPE
Night and Light Project
FLANDERS OPERASTUDIO 2011
CONDUCTOR | BART BOECKAERT
STAGE DIRECTOR | SYBILLE WILSON
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
LIGHTING DESIGNER | ACE MC CARRON
TECHNICAL SUPPORT | JEAN-PIERRE VERKIMPE
Julie
Inspired by Fröken Julie (A. Strindberg)
FLANDERS OPERASTUDIO 2011
LIBRETTO | LUC BONDY
MUSIC | PHILIPPE BOESMANS
CONDUCTOR | BART BOECKAERT
STAGE DIRECTOR | SYBILLE WILSON
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
LIGHTING DESIGNER | ACE MC CARRON
PROPS | SATU PELTONIEMI
TECHNICAL SUPPORT | JEAN-PIERRE VERKIMPE
Donizetti Bellini Project
Inspired by music from Linda di Chamounix, Lucrecia Borgia, L’Elisir d’ Amore and I Capuleti e i Montecchi
FLANDERS OPERASTUDIO 2011
CONDUCTOR | HEIN BOTERBERG
STAGE DIRECTOR | FRÉDÉRIC DUSSENNE
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
LIGHTING DESIGNER | RENAUD CEULEMANS
TECHNICAL SUPPORT SET | JEAN-PIERRE VERKIMPE
Benjamin Britten Project
Inspired by music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Turn of the screw, The rape of Lucretia and Peter Grimes
FLANDERS OPERASTUDIO 2012
CONDUCTOR | FILIP RATHÉ
STAGE DIRECTOR | VINCENT VAN DEN ELSHOUT
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
LIGHTING DESIGNER | ACE MC CARRON
TECHNICAL SUPPORT SET | JEAN-PIERRE VERKIMPE
Poetic Machine
COMPAGNIE MONICA 2018/2019
CONCEPT & DIRECTION | SARAH BOSTOEN
DANCE | ESSE VANDERBRUGGEN
& SARAH BOSTOEN
MUSIC | RALPH TIMMERMANS
DRAMATURGY | LISE SURMONT
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
Puss in boots
INTERNATIONAL OPERA ACADEMY & ZOMEROPERA ALDEN BIESEN 2015/2016
GENT FESTIVAL OF FLANDERS 2016
FLANDERS OPERA 2016/2017
CONDUCTOR| HEIN BOTERBERG
STAGE DIRECTOR | LUCIJA BRNIC
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
PROPS / SET ADVISE | MIZUE HIRAMAYA
VIDEO DESIGNER | MARIO LEKO
ARTE VOCALE
OPERA BALLET FLANDERS 2018
CONCEPT | ERIKA PAUWELS
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
SARADAG
VTM TELEVISION 2008
CONCEPT | VTM
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
Missing & carrying
KOPSPEL 2008
MUSIC | PETER VERWIMP
STAGE DIRECTOR | MARIA FERNANDA COELHO
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
SET DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
LIGHTING DESIGNER | GÉSSICA ARJONA
Last concert at the opera
FLANDERS OPERASTUDIO 2011
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
TECHNICAL SUPPORT | JEAN-PIERRE VERKIMPE
Loch Shiel Spring Festival
2010
CONDUCTOR | RICHARD BALCOMBE
STAGE DIRECTOR | CHRISTOPHER JOSEY
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
POST PLAZA
STAD GENT 2010
Young Designers from Ghent-Belgium
Le spectre de la rose
Opera Ballet Flanders 2007
SOPRANO | MARIJN VAN DAMME
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
Danza del Mar
2011
JEWELRY DESIGNER | LEEN VAN WAES
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
howling
SERENDIPITY FILMS 2019
FILM DIRECTOR | LAURA VAN HAECKE
COSTUME DESIGNER | BIRCH
GARDEROBE ASSISTANT | ELENA WERNER
FREEDOM TV
KASK & CONSERVATORIUM 2021
CONCEPT | MIEN BOGAERT
STAGE DIRECTOR | MIEN BOGAERT
COSTUME ASSISTANT | ELENA WERNER
SET DESIGNER | MIEN BOGAERT
THE WHITE QUEEN
BBC 2012
CONCEPT | BBC
COSTUME DESIGNER | NICK EDE
COSTUME MAKER | ELENA WERNER
PORTRAITS
TIM TRONCKOE 2019
CONCEPT | TIM TRONCKOE
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
& SIMON DE BRUYNE
KASTEEL VAN GAASBEEK
2013/2014/2015/2016
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
MAKE-UP | LIEVE HUMBEECK
SHOE MAKER | ALBERTO ROMANO
FLORALIËN
KASTEEL VAN LAARNE 2023
CONCEPT | ELENA WERNER
SET DESIGN | ELENA WERNER
FLOWER DESIGN | ELENA WERNER
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
HUIS ARNOLD Vander HAEGHEN
HISTORISCHE HUIZEN 2019
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
THE VERGETEN PRINCESSEN VAN THORN
JOOST WELTEN 2019
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
Hotel d’Hane-Steenhuyse
HISTORISCHE HUIZEN 2018
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
MUSEUM NIGHT
MUSEO DE LA COLONIZACION DE ESPERANZA ARGENTINA 2009
CONCEPT | GRACIELA RUSSI, ANA CAUSSI &
ELENA WERNER
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
EGMONT DE MUSICAL
PIJKENZOT VZW 2018
CONCEPT | PIJKENZOT
STAGE DIRECTOR | STIJN DE WOLF
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
MUSIC | BENJAMIN LYCKE
MAKE-UP | PASCALE DE RIDDER
HORST IN DE STEIGERS
HERITA & HANDELSREIZIGERS IN IDEEËN 2024
AUDIO | AUDIOMAKERIJ SELKIE
CONCEPT | FILIP STANDAERT
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
SECOND STYLE
OXFAM-SOLIDARITÉ SOLIDARITEIT 2009
CONCEPT | MARINA YEE
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
ZINLOOS GEWELD
CONCEPT | CARINE VAN DEN BOSSCHE
& CHRISTIAN LAPINNE 2010
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
RENSON 100 YEARS
CONCEPT | RUDOLF WERTHEN 2009
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS
d’Academie beeld Sint-Niklaas 2006
CONCEPT | ELENA WERNER
SET DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER &
JEAN-PIERRE VERKIMPE
COSTUME DESIGNER | ELENA WERNER
Costume Design & Scenic Arts
MAISON DENISE
Flōra
