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set and lighting designer
He graduated in Stage Design at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 2001 and later specialized in light design at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
He began his career in 2002 at Mittelfest with director Daniele Abbado with whom he maintained an active collaboration.
He was assistant to the set designer Graziano Gregori and signed the lights of Pinocchio at the Teatro del Carretto in Lucca, later awarded as best show in the XIX edition of the Baltic House International Festival in St. Petersburg. During his career he has collaborated as a set designer and light designer with important directors and composers including Daniele Abbado, Giorgio Battistelli, Giampiero Solari, Francesco Micheli, Alina Marazzi, Roberto Andò, Lucinda Childs, Dario Argento, Muriel Mayette-Holtz and Nicola Piovani.
His activity has led him to the most important national and international stages for festivals and festivals, as part of opera and theater, among them the Wiener Staatsoper, the Edinburgh festival, the Mozart Festival of La Coruña, the Festspielhaus Baden Baden, the Teatro Du Capitole in Toulouse, the Festival di Spoleto, the Festival del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro di Reggio Emilia, the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, the Teatro Franco Parenti and the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. In 2018 he curated Verdi’s Macbeth for the inauguration of the Parma Festival live Rai5, while in 2019 he is light designer of Stefano Boeri’s installation of the Trojans at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse.
In 2021 he dedicated himself to Turandot with the final of Berio for the Puccini Festival of Torre del Lago and Infinite Falstaff at the Lausitz Festival of Cottbus at Hangar 5 of Burger. In 2022 he designed scenes and lights for Jules Verne by Giorgio Battistelli for the Venice Biennale and in 2023 for the Reggio Parma Festival he signed the stage and lights for Peer Gynt produced by Teatro Due in Parma.
His most recent engagements in 2024 include the design of the scenography by Simon Boccanegra for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Dido and Aeneas and Die Sieben Todsünden for the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and Il Labirinto in Crete for the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari.
In the two-year period 2015-2016 he was technical director of the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari.
He has taught several courses and workshops at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, the Accademia Ligustica in Genoa and the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan, and is currently a professor of Scenotecnica at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice.