BOOK AND EXHIBITION

29 November /Friday/

Start: 17.00

6.30 p.m.

Opera Lobby

SALVATORE RUSSO

Presentation of an edition dedicated to the artist by Flavia Pappacena /Flavia Pappacena/ and an exhibition of the author's scenography and costume design

Salvatore Russo, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, made his debut as scenographer and costume designer for the ballet Tre Canzoni Italiane at the Rome Opera (1962) at the invitation of the conductors Tulio Serafin and Gioacchino Forzano. He has also worked for the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Greate Opera Theatre in Tokyo, the Seattle Opera, the opera houses of São Paolo and Manaus, and for television and film productions in Italy and the USA. He has also taken part in productions of the Sofia, Rousse, Stara Zagora and Varna Operas. He won the great Italian prize "Positano" for the set and costume design of the ballet "Masques Ostendes" by R. Vlad and J. Corelli (1970) and the high award "Torre d`Argento" (1988).