Romeo Castellucci

Romeo Castellucci (born 1960 in Cesena), Italian director, creator of sets, lights and costumes, is known over the world for creating a theater based on the totality of arts and aimed at an integral perception of the work. His theater proposes a dramaturgy that overturns the primacy of literature, making the stage a complex form of art, made up of extraordinarily rich images, expressed in an understandable language such as music, sculpture, painting or architecture. Castellucci's stagings are regularly invited and produced by the most prestigious international theaters, festivals and opera houses, in over sixty countries covering all continents. He was director of the Theater section at the Venice Biennale, Artiste Associé at the Avignon Festival and is currently Grand Invité at the Milano Triennale and guest director at the Schaubühne in Berlin. The Paris Festival d'Automne has presented an anthology of his work for two consecutive years. Awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic and an honorary degree from the University of Bologna, he is a member of the Accadémie Royale de Belgique and received, among other international awards, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale Teatro and two Golden Masks for Opera. His most recent productions are the theatre works La vita nuova (2018), Il Terzo Reich (2020), Bros (2021), the direction of the lyric operas Don Giovanni (2021), Pavane für Prometheus IX (2021), Il Castello di Barbablù and De Temporum Fine Comoedia (2022), the outdoor action Milano (2021) and the installation domani (2022).