Biography
Melchior Silbersack works as a freelance costume designer and theatre and dance educator. After studying Theatre Studies, Education and English Literature and Culture in Mainz, Silbersack specialised in the collaborative development of costume designs in relation to sexuality and gender during a master's degree in Theatre Education at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
In 2022, Silbersack received a first teaching appointment in this field. Their artistic and educational work explores clothing- and costume-related themes, including the queer potential of fashion, challenging stereotypical ways of seeing and questioning societal norms.
Following numerous costume designs for performances and independent theatre productions, Melchior Silbersack made their costume design debut at Oper Leipzig in September 2023 with Peter Maxwell Davies' »Majesty & Madness«. Further productions include »Ein wenig Farbe« at the Musikalische Komödie, »Il barbiere di Siviglia« and »My Fair Lady« at Landestheater Coburg, as well as »Black Box« and »Falstaff« at Oper Leipzig.
In the 2026/27 season, Melchior Silbersack designs the costumes for Anne Jung's new creation in the double bill »Sibelius / Bruckner« and for »Elegien – Black Box II«.