Anna Schöttl studied stage and costume design at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, graduating with distinction in 2016. She gained practical experience in production design while studying at Wimbledon College of Arts and in opera at the Salzburg Festival. At the Bavarian State Opera she worked for three years as a set assistant. In the 2020/21 Season, she developed the stage design together with Marina Abramović for the latter’s opera project, 7 Deaths of Maria Callas. In 2021/22 she collaborated with the British sculptor Phyllida Barlow on Mozart’s Idomeneo. She designed the set for the drama horror collage Retnecboj – the Invisible Horror in Munich. She designed the set and costumes for the opera productions Sokol//Alcide at the National Opera Lviv in Ukraine, to which she returned at the end of 2022 for the opera Strashna Pomsta directed by Andreas Weirich, which premiered during the war. For Theater Bielefeld she designed the set of Dunkel ist die Nacht, Rigoletto! in 2020/21 and returned again in 2021/22 for the opera Egmont, directed by Nadja Loschky. At the Bühnen Bern, she was responsible for the stage design of the opera Sycorax at the start of the 2022/23 season, directed by Giulia Giammona. Once again in Bielefeld, she designed the set and costumes for the German premiere of Anthropocene – The Woman from the Ice, directed by Maaike van Langen. 7 Deaths of Maria Callas will be her ENO debut.