I’m sure if Maria were still alive today she’d still be improving the show because she was just that kind of person. “Over time, we have done five different sculpts for the phantom mask itself because she kept wanting it to be more interesting. “She was interested in developing the show,” says Associate Costume Designer Sam Fleming. Despite variations and evolutions, every costume piece worn in Phantom today originated in Björnson’s design. LOOK OF LOVE: Maria Bjornson designed the sets and costumes for The Phantom of the Opera, her first of only three Broadway credits. Her designs were extravagant and yet simultaneously unsettling, as she perfected a unique idiom of romantic expressionism. When Björnson died suddenly at the age of 53, she was at the center of revelatory transformations in opera production. If you havent already, check out her website. When Lloyd Webber introduced the musical to friends at his country home, Bjornson prepared a chandelier to plunge over the audience, a rousing effect that also appeared in the full production. I must say a special thanks to Ana, who took the time to discuss many of the quirky details about the costumes. “We used drapes swagging downwards and upwards,” Björnson once wrote, “dark Turkish corners leading off to nowhere, and candles rising out of the floor through mist.” Inspired by the subterranean glamour of Paris, she imagined a misty underground lake and studded the proscenium with gilded figures.
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