Guido Maria Kretschmer, costume designer, was born in Germany. He has his own fashion company GMK by pepper as well as his own fashion label. He designs regularly for leading European companies including Kempinski Hotels, Spar Austria and Montblanc. He has participated in numerous fashion shows all over the world as well as in the German version of the television show Top Model. As a designer he has created costumes for many opera, theatre and film productions all over the world. This is his first work at the Israeli Opera.