Barbara Del Piano graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in fashion design after completing studies in design, visual arts, as well as management and production (textiles). She quickly turned to work for the stage.

As an inherently enthusiastic musician (piano, flute, vocals), she is driven to work in the scenic realm and especially in opera.

After a few months in the costume workshop of the Opéra de Montpellier, she became assistant to the costume director at Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg (2009) and assisted and trained with costume- and stage designers such as Julia Hansen, Helmut Sturmer, Katia Duflot, Louis Désiré, Christian Lacroix, Miruna and Radu Boruzescu, amonst others. In this way she also had the opportunity to work with numerous stage directors such as Mariame Clément, Waut Koeken, Vincent Boussard, Silviu Purcarete and Robert Carsen, amongst others.

In 2011 she left her post at the ONR costume workshop to devote herself entirelyto personal projects of creation in opera and theatre. She worked with choreographer Natalie Van Parys, for whom she created set and costumes for Mozart’s Apollo and Hyacinthus at the Cité de la Musique in Paris (2014).

In collaboration with the stage director Rares Zaharia, she develops several projects (such asAriadne auf Naxosand Salomé, amongst others) and realisesthe set design for Strauss’Wiener Blut in Craiova, Romania, in 2015 and set design and costumes for Don Carloin 2016.

At the same time she mounts theatre projects, other forms of musical and artistic performances,as well as films and music clips with various collectives and companies from southern France (with the Compagnie Je Pars à Zart: project “Volte” based on La Zone du dehors by A. Damasio; with Flying Fish Studio / La Mark de Fabrique collective: clips of the group The Mitchi Bitchi Bar; etc.) and, in collaboration with artist friends and musicians, founds the collective La Cave Corporation, which organises cultural events and supports young artists.

She begins her collaboration with Valentina Carrasco (La Fura del Baus) as a costume designer for Enescu’s Oedipe at the National Opera in Bucharest in November 2015. She also creates costumes for Rachmaninov’s Aleko and Francesca da Riminiat the Kiel Opera House with the same director in April 2018.