Alessandro Carletti - lighting 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. With director
Damiano Michieletto he started collaborating in 2008 in Lugo on Jackie’O,
then at Teatro San Carlo in Naples for Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and
at Rossini Opera Festival he created lighting design for La Scala di Seta and
in 2010 Sigismondo. 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. Actually engaged in nabucco at the Gran Teatre
del Liceu in Barcelona Alessandro Carletti future 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.
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