Pier Luigi Pizzi (June 15, 1930 – ) is an Italian opera director, set designer, and costume designer.
Pizzi was born in Milan, Italy, and earned a degree in architecture at the Politecnico in Milan. Against the will of his skeptical father, he started working in the theater in 1951 with Giorgio Strehler, and then at the Teatro Tommaseo in Genova, which he soon brought together with Giorgio De Lullo and his theater troupe Compagnia dei Giovani. La...
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Pier Luigi Pizzi (June 15, 1930 – ) is an Italian opera director, set designer, and costume designer.
Pizzi was born in Milan, Italy, and earned a degree in architecture at the Politecnico in Milan. Against the will of his skeptical father, he started working in the theater in 1951 with Giorgio Strehler, and then at the Teatro Tommaseo in Genova, which he soon brought together with Giorgio De Lullo and his theater troupe Compagnia dei Giovani. Later he collaborated for many years as a set and costume designer with the director Luca Ronconi on both plays and operas. Pizzi debuted as an operatic director in 1977 with Don Giovanni in Turin. More opera productions followed, with Pizzi sketching sets and costumes as well.
Pizzi has worked in major houses including La Scala, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Vienna State Opera, the Paris Opéra, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and the Arena di Verona, as well as the opera houses in Florence, Naples,...
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