Jacopo Pantani

Jacopo Pantani studied design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Contracts as a lighting designer have taken him to some of the most important theatres worldwide. His collaboration with Giancarlo del Monaco took him to the Sydney Opera House (for Luisa Miller), the Beijing (for L'Italiana in Algeri) and Belgrade (for Norma) opera houses. At the Royal Opera House Covent Garden he developed the lighting concept for the new production of Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Manon, and for his ballet Mayerling at the Budapest Opera House. He designed the lighting at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples for Pêcheurs du perles directed by Fabio Sparvoli, at the Teatro Massimo Palermo for the ballet Le Corsaire with a set by Francesco Zito, at the Mariinsky Theater (Carmina Burana), at the Royal Opera House in Muscat for a project by the Caracalla Dance Company, with directors Lorenzo Amato and Giovanni Spinelli.

Together with the set designer Ezio Frigerio, he created opera and ballet productions all over the world, such as: B. Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Carmen, Don Quixote and Elisir d'amore. In the recent past he took part in Alessandro Talevi's productions (Tosca in Tokyo, Rigoletto in Seoul), in Renato Zanella's ballet Mata Hari, in Anne Delbée's production of The Rape of Lucretia at the Théâtre du Capitôle Tolouse and in Arnaud Bernard's Carmen for the Austrian summer stage Oper im Steinbruch. He worked for the first time at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for Marcia Haydée's Sleeping Beauty.