Agostino Cavalca

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Agostino Cavalca (born before 1980) is an Italian costume designer who mainly works with the directing duo Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier , the set designer Christian Fenouillat and the lighting designer Christophe Forey .

life and work

Cavalca has lived in Paris since 1980. In drama he designed costumes for numerous classics - including works by Corneille , Euripides , Goethe , Marivaux , Molière , Racine and Shakespeare - as well as for numerous pieces by contemporary authors. Since 1995 Cavalca has been part of the permanent creative team of the Belgian-French directing duo Leiser / Caurier, whom he has accompanied during their careers through smaller and larger opera houses in France, French-speaking Switzerland and Great Britain. The international breakthrough of the five-man creative team came on the one hand in 2000 with the first premiere at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London (Rossini's La Cenerentola ), on the other hand in 2008 with the commitment to the Zurich Opera by Alexander Pereira , where five model productions were created: Halévys Clari , the world premiere by Dalbavies Gesualdo , as well as the three Rossini operas Le comte Ory , Mosè in Egitto and Otello .

The two directors, the two outfitters and the lighting designer have been working frequently in Austria since 2012 - again at the invitation of Pereira at the Salzburg Whitsun and Summer Festival , also at the Bregenz Festival , in the Theater an der Wien and at the Vienna State Opera . In Salzburg, together with the artistic director and singer Cecilia Bartoli , they worked on Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto in 2012 , Bellini's Norma in 2013 and Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride at Whitsun 2015 .

As an exception, Cavalca also designed the costumes for Damiano Michieletto's production of Rossini's La Cenerentola (at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in 2014) and once for Jean-Claude Fall's production of Verdi's Luisa Miller (2014 at the Operá de Liège ).

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SURNAME Cavalca, Agostino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1980