Exhibition curator and scenography

Ezio Frigerio
Artistic director
Ezio Frigerio is one of the greatest designers in the world of theater and he has worked for the most prestigious institutions and the most famous directors: Giorgio Strehler, Luca Ronconi, Roger Planchon, Jorge Lavelli, Claude Régy and Nicolas Joël...
Artistic director
Ezio Frigerio is one of the greatest designers in the world of theater and he has worked for the most prestigious institutions and the most famous directors: Giorgio Strehler, Luca Ronconi, Roger Planchon, Jorge Lavelli, Claude Régy and Nicolas Joël for opera; Rudolf Nureyev, Roland Petit and Yuri Grigorovitch for ballet; Vittorio di Sica, Liliana Cavani, Bernado Bertoluccci, Jean-Paul Rappeneau and Volker Schlöndorff for film. He has designed some three hundred productions, and some of his sets for the Comédie-Française, the Paris Opera, the Piccolo Theatro and La Scala of Milan have entered history. Ezio Frigerio designed his first sets at the request of Rudolf Nureyev for his 1980 production of Romeo and Juliet at La Scala. The choreographer then commissioned sets for Swan Lake, La Bayadère and Sleeping Beauty. During these collaborations the two artists became close friends. When Rudolf Nureyev died, Ezio Frigerio designed his friend’s grave. Twenty years after the death of the dancer, Ezio Frigerio accepted to conceive the scenography for the first space in the world dedicated to the memory of Rudolf Nureyev.

Giuliano Spinelli
Scenographer
Giuliano Spinelli was born in Bologna in 1970 and studied art at the La Brera Academy in Milan where his award-winning work was regularly selected for expositions such as that of the Mozart Laboratorium at the Lyric Theater in Milan. After graduating, he...
Scenographer
Giuliano Spinelli was born in Bologna in 1970 and studied art at the La Brera Academy in Milan where his award-winning work was regularly selected for expositions such as that of the Mozart Laboratorium at the Lyric Theater in Milan. After graduating, he participated in exhibitions and television films and then devoted himself to scenography. He became assistant stage director for many opera productions at the Rome Opera, the Massimo Theater in Palermo and at the new theater La Mirandola in Modena, and he has directed fifteen productions. He has collaborated with Ezio Frigerio since 1998 on scenographies in the greatest theaters in the world, and today has added his collaboration to the design of the exhibition space for The Nureyev Collection.