Lighting designer Rainer Casper has died at 60.

Born in 1964,  Casper initially worked at the Cologne Theater before working as head of lighting at the Leipzig Theater, the Hannover Theater, and the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin, where his collaboration with Frank Castorf began. With Castroff he notably designed the lighting for the “The Ring of the Nibelung” at the 2013 Bayreuth Festival.

He also created lighting for Wolfgang Rihm’s “Jakob” Lenz at the Vienna Festival in 2008 and 2012’s Barbara Wysocka production “Woyzeck/Wozzeck” at the Munich Kammerspiele.

Casper also worked, among other things, at the Vienna Burgtheater, at the Berlin HAU, at the Teatro Regio in Turin, at the Frankfurt Opera as well as at the Norwegian Opera in Oslo and De Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp/Ghent.

His last production was the Leila Hekmat “Gloriette,” which premiered on Dec. 6, 2024.