Gabriela Salaverri was born in Barcelona and trained at the Escuela Superior de Diseño de Madrid.
She has designed costumes for a wide range of opera productions, including Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias and Offenbach’s Ba-ta-clan (Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao), Puccini’s La bohème (Danish National Opera, Aarhus), Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Verdi’s Otello (Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège), Gounod’s Faust (Teatro La Fenice, Venice), Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur (Teatro Cervantes, Málaga) and Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet (Teatro Campoamor, Oviedo).
Her extensive theatre credits encompass costume designs for plays such as Els Watson after Jane Austen and Justicia by Guillem Clua (Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Barcelona), José Sanchis Sinisterra’s Naufragios de Álvar Núñez based on the conquistador’s autobiography, and Brecht’s Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Centro Dramático Nacional at the Teatro María Guerrero, Madrid), Calderón de la Barca’s La dama duende and Lope de Vega’s El castigo sin venganza (Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico, Madrid).
Has also designed costumes for numerous musicals, including Godspell (produced by Antonio Banderas; Teatro del Soho Caixabank, Málaga), Mamma Mia! (Teatro Rialto, Madrid), The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady (Teatro Coliseum, Madrid) and Man of La Mancha (Teatro Lope de Vega, Madrid).
In 2024 she designed the costumes for Giancarlo del Monaco’s production of Rigoletto at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia.
Was also the costume designer for Tom Kalin’s film Savage Grace (USA/France/Spain, 2007), starring Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne.
Information for January 2025