Ezio Toffolutti

Ezio Toffolutti (* 1944 in Venice ) is an Italian set designer , costume designer , director and painter .

Life

Toffolutti studied stage design and painting at the Accademia delle Belle Arti Venezia . After graduation, he worked as a designer and architect on urban planning and exhibition projects in Verona . In 1971 he went to the Volksbühne in Berlin / GDR .

He worked as a set and costume designer on the major European theatrical and opera stages in Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Paris, Rome, Brussels, Geneva, Zurich, Hamburg, Milan, Athens, Helsinki, Stockholm (among others with the directors Benno Besson , Hans Lietzau , Harry Kupfer , Johannes Schaaf , Nikolaus Lehnhoff , Michael Kakyoannis , Jérôme Savary , Claude Stratz and Katharina Thalbach ). In 2013 he furnished Mitko Gottschef's production "Zement" by Heiner Müller. His sets and costumes have been shown at the festivals in Avignon, Spoleto, Glyndebourne and Parma, the Biennale di Venezia , the Vienna Festival and the Salzburg Festival .

Since 1983, he leads both in the theater and in music theater director . The most important works include a. The delirium of the landlord Bassa from Rosso di San Secondo and Zobeide from Carlo Gozzi . He staged Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto at the Vienna Chamber Opera , Don Giovanni for the National Rice Opera in the Netherlands, and at the Aalto Theater in Essen he staged Die Zauberflöte and Lucia di Lammermoor . At the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival in 2008 he staged the world premiere of ETA Hoffmann's Singspiel Liebe und Jeaersucht , which was also performed at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich. His production of Mozart's Così fan tutte accompanied the reopening of the Parisian opera house Palais Garnier in 1996 with great success . This work is now part of the repertoire of the Palais Garnier, it was resumed there in 2011 and 2014. She was also taken over by the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, where his production of Sergei Prokofiev's The Love for the Three Oranges (co-director with Benno Besson, 2001) was shown.

Toffolutti has received the Berlin Critics' Prize several times , the Kainz Medal and in 2001 the Prix Molière twice .

From 2002 to 2007 Toffolutti taught stage design at the newly founded Faculty of Design e Arti at the University of Architecture in Venice . In 2004 he held a master class (college) at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian , Lisbon. Between 2002 and 2009 he was head of the stage design and stage costume course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

Toffolutti lives in Venice , where he launched the CinemaToffolutti studio project on the Giudecca in 2009 .

personal data
SURNAME	Toffolutti, Ezio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian set designer, costume designer, director and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Venice