stage design

Piero Vinciguerra

Piero Vinciguerra first studied under writer and screenwriter Tonino Guerra, then art history and stage design at the University of Urbino. He has been working as a freelancer since 1996 and has designed stage sets for the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, the Dresden Music Festival and numerous theatres and opera houses, including in Freiburg, Bonn, Bremen, Dessau, Würzburg, Darmstadt, Zurich, Frankfurt am Main and the Gothenburg Opera House, where he designed the stage set for the world premiere of »Gustavo III«. With director Roland Schwab, he staged »Don Giovanni« (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Festival Castell de Peralada), »Mefistofele« (Bavarian State Opera Munich), »The Rakeʼs Progress« (Theater Dortmund), »Farnace« (Staatstheater Braunschweig) and »Guillaume Tell« (Staatstheater Saarbrücken). He worked with Lorenzo Fioroni in Augsburg (»Simplicius Simplicissimus«) and Lübeck (»La traviata«). At the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, he designed the stage set for »Don Quichotte«, directed by Elisabeth Stöppler.

Piero Vinciguerraʼs work has been nominated several times in the criticsʼ poll of the trade journal »Opernwelt« in the category »Stage Design of the Year«. Since 2009, he has worked regularly with director Theo Roos on television productions for 3sat and arte. His most recent works include »Lohengrin« at the Felsenreitschule Salzburg (nominated for the »Austrian Music Theatre Prize«), »Tristan und Isolde« at the Bayreuth Festival and in Shanghai, »Parsifal« and »Otello« at the Aalto Music Theatre in Essen, »Elektra« at the Cologne Opera, »Le Prophète« at the Landestheater Linz, »Don Pasquale« at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and »Nabucco« at the Theater Bonn.