I was born in Ferrara, Italy, and graduated as a set and costume designer with a first-class honor degree from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, with additional studies in art history at the University of Ferrara. I’ve made many important collaborations in the artistic and theatrical field with Claudio Abbado, Jonathan Miller, Hugo De Ana, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Luca Ronconi, Peter Greenaway, Roland Petit, Lindsay Kemp, Emanuele Luzzati, Robert Wilson, Lev Dodin, Maurizio Scaparro, Massimo Ranieri, Arturo Brachetti and many others. I have taught staging and production design at the University of Ferrara, and now I’m a professor of set design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. As a painter and sculptor, I have taken part in various exhibitions both in Italy and abroad for many important artistic events. I began my career in 1990 and officially made my debut as a set and costume designer in 2001 in the production of the opera “Simon Boccanegra” by G. Verdi with the famous conductor Claudio Abbado, at the Theaters of Ferrara, Parma and Bolzano. I have worked in the most important opera houses and national and international theaters, with great appreciation from the audience and critics. I also collaborate as a set designer and costume designer with the director Maurizio Scaparro with whom I created scenes and costumes for the show Viviani Varietà with the participation of Massimo Ranieri, production of the 75th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Fondazione Teatro della Pergola in Florence; La Coscienza di Zeno by I. Svevo with the theatrical reduction by Tullio Kezich for the Teatro Carcano in Milan; AmeriKa by F. Kafka for the Napoli Teatro Festival 2014 and Piccolo Eliseo di Roma; Aspettando Godot by S. Beckett, for the Teatro Carcano in Milan; in La Bottega del Caffè by C. Goldoni for the Teatro della Pergola-National Theater of Tuscany, in collaboration with Napoli Teatro Festival 2015 and Piccolo Teatro di Milano- EXPO 2015. Richard the Third by Shakespeare, directed and interpreted by Italian singer-actor Massimo Ranieri, with the original music by Ennio Morricone, at the Teatro Romano, Verona’s Shakespeare Festival. I also made for Minnesota Opera House three new opera’s productions: Tosca by Puccini, Thais by Massenet and Italian Straw Hat by Rota. I also made sets for installations for important exhibitions in Italy such as Le Memorie de Adriano, based on the novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, in Rome; The Adventures of Pinocchio, with the special collaboration and inspiration of Roberto Benigni’s film at the Cinema’s House in Terni, Italy. I also designed the video The Light of Dreams, a tribute to Rome and the Italian Cinema commissioned for the world gala of L’Oréal – Paris at the Aldobrandini’s Villa in Frascati. In 2018 I made the great scenographic fabric cover of the Ferrara’s Cathedral made with the support of Confindustria Emilia, QN Il Resto del Carlino and Curia Arcivescovile of Ferrara. In December 2014 during a gala ceremony at the Doha Katara Amphitheater in the Emirate of Qatar, I was awarded with the prestigious “International Opera Award – Oscar of the Opera 2014” as best Production Designer.