Behind the Curtain

A night at the Bayerische Staatsoper looks like a handful of stars under a spotlight. It is really the work of hundreds of people the audience never sees. Behind the Curtain turns the camera on them — one film per person, one craft at a time. Across two seasons we portrayed 29 of them: stage managers and armourers, head-lighting and set designers, casting and physiotherapy, even the climate technicians who hold a historic stage at exactly the right temperature. Every portrait is shot with documentary intimacy and finished with cinematic care.