{"id":21156,"date":"2025-10-16T11:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/cast\/paloma-merce-costume-designer\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:00:34","slug":"paloma-merce-costume-designer","status":"publish","type":"cast","link":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/en\/cast\/paloma-merce-costume-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"Paloma Merce, costume designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Merce Paloma<\/strong>, costume designer, was born in Spain. Her opera credits include<strong> Cosi fan tutte<\/strong>, <strong>Don Giovanni<\/strong> (Mozart), <strong>Die Fledermaus<\/strong> (J. Strauss), <strong>Un ballo in maschera<\/strong> (Verdi), <strong>Tosca<\/strong> (Puccini), <strong>Wozzeck<\/strong> (Berg), <strong>Manon<\/strong> (Massenet), <strong>Carmen<\/strong> (Bizet), <strong>Parsifal<\/strong>, <strong>Lohengrin <\/strong>(Wagner), <strong>Il trovatore<\/strong> (Verdi), <strong>Salome<\/strong> (R. Strauss) and others. She has worked at the opera houses of Copenhagen, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Hannover, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Bilbao, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and others. She has worked extensively with Calixo Bieito as well as for Spanish and Catalan television and films.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Her works at the Israeli Opera:<\/div>\n<div><b>Cavalleria rusticana <\/b>(2023)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merce Paloma, costume designer, was born in Spain. Her opera credits include Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni (Mozart), Die Fledermaus (J. 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