Alessandro Carletti - light designer

Born in Rome, he studied photography and painting through which he very soon discovered his passion for lighting design. In the late 90s he started working at the Rossini Opera Festival where he consolidated his experience in opera productions. In 2008 he started his collaboration with Damiano Michieletto working together for Jackie’O in Lugo, Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, La Scala di Seta and Sigismondo at the Rossini Opera Festival. Furthermore, in 2011 they continued their collaboration in Valencia on Elisir d’amore, at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo Greek Passion and Così fan tutte at the New National Theatre Tokyo. He worked regularly with directors such as Daniele Abbado, Francesco Micheli, Henning Brockhaus, Pippo Delbono, Franco Ripa di Meana, Yannis Kokkos and others. Recent works include: Il Trittico, Le Nozze di Figaro (Theater an der Wien), Don Carlos (Wiener Staatsoper),Cavalleria Rusticana (Teatro San Carlo, Naples), Nabucco and Guillaume Tell (Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London), Un Ballo in Maschera (Teatro La Scala, Comunale in Bologna) and many others, while his next projects include L’Elisir d’amore in Brussels, Nabucco (Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona). Alessandro Carletti has just received the Knight of Illumination award forGuillaume Tell staged at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. 

Plans include: Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice; La Scala di Seta in Cremona and in Liège; Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci at the ROH in London and in Sidney and Melbourne; Rossini’s Otello in Vienna (Theater an der Wien); Dreigroschenoper at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan; Puccini’s Il Trittico at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Cendrillon at the Komische Oper Berlin; Samson et Dalila at the Opera de Paris; Falstaff at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Il Trovatore at the Staatsoper in Wien; Il Viaggio a Reims at the Royal Opera Copenhagen.