A N G E L O L I N Z A L A T A
set and lighting designer
He graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts with a degree in Stage Design in 2001, later specialising in lighting design at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
He began his career in 2002 at Mittelfest, working with director Daniele Abbado, with whom he maintained an active collaboration.
He assisted the set designer Graziano Gregori and designed the lighting for Pinocchio at the Teatro del Carretto in Lucca, which was later awarded Best Show at the 19th Baltic House International Festival in Saint Petersburg. Throughout his career, he has worked as a set and light designer with renowned 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.
He has performed on the most important national and international opera and theatre stages, including the Wiener Staatsoper, the Edinburgh Festival, the La Coruña Mozart Festival, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Opéra National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Spoleto Festival, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro Municipale in 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, which was broadcast live on Rai5. In 2019, he was the lighting designer for Stefano Boeri's production of Les Troyens at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse.
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In 2021, he worked on Turandot, with Berio's finale for the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, and Infinite Falstaff at the Lausitz Festival in Cottbus, at Burger's Hangar 5. In 2022, he designed the scenery and lighting for Jules Verne by Giorgio Battistelli at the Venice Biennale. In 2023, for the Reggio Parma Festival, he designed the stage and lighting for Peer Gynt, produced by the Teatro Due in Parma for the Reggio Parma Festival.
From 2015 to 2016, he was the technical director at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari.
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His most recent projects for 2024 include designing the scenography for Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Dido and Aeneas and Die Sieben Todsünden at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, and Il Labirinto in Crete at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari.
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He has taught courses and workshops at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, the Accademia Ligustica in Genoa, and the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He is currently a professor of stagecraft at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice.