NICOLO’ CRISTIANO
Partner
Set designer, stage director
Master degree in Oriental studies
He attended Oriental studies at Ca’ Foscari university in Venice and got the master degree in 2012 and at the same time attended set design courses at the Brera Arts Academy in Milan and at the Cignaroli Arts Academy in Verona, where he developed his interest and skills for the thatre and the opera performances.
His career begins as a stage technician for several theatres and opera houses: Arena of Verona, Municipal Theatre of Bologna, Carlo Goldoni of Venice, Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona, where he learned the basics of theatre set design.
In 2008 he started a collaboration with the director, set designer and costumes maker Louis Desiré, as a scene and costumes assistant first and then as an a director’s assistant. He worked for the Opéra de Nice, Esplanade Theater of Singapore, Opéra Paris-Massy, Opéra de Metz, Opéra de Marseille, National Opera de Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Opéra de Saint-Etienne, TOBS theater of Biel Solothurn, Festival d’Orange participating in several productions among which Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Rossini’s Cinderella, Puccini’s La Tosca, Massenet’s Werther, Verdi’s La Traviata and more.
He attended Autocad courses and developed his interest in photography attending courses in photography post production at the Seeway school in Barcelona.
Mother tongue: Italian – other languages: English, French, Portuguese and Chinese.