Berlin Opera engaged Gehry as the set designer

Berlin - The Berlin State Opera has engaged the famous 86-year-old American architect Frank Gehry as a set designer. He has been commissioned to create the set for Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice, the Berlin opera house reported today according to the DPA agency.
    The new production of the opera inspired by Greek mythology will be created under the baton of director Jürgen Flimm and Israeli conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim. The premiere is scheduled for March 18, 2016, at the Berlin State Opera celebrations.
    Among Gehry's most famous architectural works are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. He is also a co-author of the Dancing House in Prague.
    As a stage artist, music lover Gehry made his debut in 2012 by creating sets for Mozart's opera The Magic Flute in Los Angeles. He is also currently working on a project for the Berlin concert hall for Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
    During its celebrations next year, the Berlin opera intends to organize, among other events, a piano evening with Barenboim and Martha Argerich, concerts featuring the Vienna Philharmonic, and tenor Jonas Kaufmann. The program will include works by Gustav Mahler, Antonín Dvořák, and Edward Elgar, among others.