Alessandro Carletti
Lighting Designer
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Born in Rome, the lighting designer Alessandro Carletti's work contributed to the huge success of this production of Schreker's Der ferne Klang / The Elusive Sound when it opened in 2019, and a new production of Rossini's Otello here the following year. He works regularly at leading theatres in Europe and received the »Knight of Illumination Award« in 2015 for his work on a production of Guillaume Tell at the Royal Opera House in London. He has worked regularly with Damiano Michieletto since 2008. Their many productions have been seen in cities including Venice, Naples, Milan, Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Paris, Zürich, Vienna, Rome, Tokyo, the Salzburg Festival and Melbourne. This season they stage Don Pasquale at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the world premiere of Raskatov's Animal Farm in Amsterdam, Guilio Cesare in Egitto at Oper Leipzig, Aida at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and Les contes d'Hoffmann in Sydney. He worked at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin for the first time in 2022, on Jenůfa. He lit Barrie Kosky productions of La Bohème, Bernstein's Candide and Handel's Semele at the Komische Oper Berlin, Der Rosenkavalier at the Bayerische Staatsoper and, most recently, Turandot at De National Opera in Amsterdam. Their new production of Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites opens at the Glyndebourne Festival in June. Other leading directors with whom he has worked have included Lotte de Beer. Stefano Ricci, Silvia Paoli, Daniele Abbado, Francesco Micheli, Henning Brockhaus, Pippo Delbono, Franco Ripa di Meana and Yannis Kokkos and John Turturro.