Jacques Schmidt (16 March 1933 – 8 September 1996) was a French costume designer, who collaborated regularly with stage directors Antoine Bourseiller, Patrice Chéreau and Roger Planchon. Schmidt was born in Briançon, Hautes-Alpes. From age 16, he studied at the school for Haute Couture in Paris. He worked at the Sorbonne as both actor and costume designer. In 1952, He participated in the production of Die Perser by Aeschylus in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1953 he worked exclusively as costume designer. From the 1960s he worked for Patrice Chéreau, the artistic director of the Public-Theatre in the Parisian suburb of Sartrouville. The team there included stage designer Richard Peduzzi and lighting designer André Diot. They collaborated in many later productions, including in 1976 the Jahrhundertring, to celebrate the centenary of Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and the Bayreuth Festival, conducted by Pierre Boulez. In a collaboration with the same team, he designed the costumes for the first performance of the three-act version of Alban Berg's Lulu, completed by Friedrich Cerha, at the Paris Opera on 24 February 1979, again conducted by Boulez and with sets by Richard Peduzzi, with Teresa Stratas in the title role. In film, Schmidt created…show more
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