Giorgio Barberio Corsetti

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Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (* 1951 in Rome ) is an Italian theater director , opera director, dramaturge and stage actor.

life and work

Giorgio Barberio Corsetti studied at the Accademia nazionale d'arte drammatica in Rome and founded his own company in 1976, La Gaia Scienza and in 1984 the Compagnia Giorgio Barberio Corsetti . Giorgio Barberio Corsetti took part in documenta 8 in Kassel with Studio Azzurro .

Corsetti works on interdisciplinary issues and finds unconventional stage solutions. A special poetics of language, text, sound, movement and video is characteristic of his works. With experimental approaches he breaks new ground stylistically. A particularly intensive examination took place with the work of Kafka . At the 2001 Spielart theater festival in Munich, he surprised everyone with his staging of Kafka's “Trial”. In 2001 he founded Fattore K based on the character Mr. K. by Franz Kafka

In 1999 Giorgio Barberio Corsetti was appointed Artistic Director of the Theater Section at the Biennale di Venezia .

The first opera he staged in 1999 was Maria di Rohan at the  Teatro La Fenice . He realized the operas Estaba La Madre (Luis Bacalov), Le Luthier de Venise (Gualtiero Dazzi) at the Théâtre du Châtelet and the Witches of Venice by Philip Glass in the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. In 2018 he produced Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera in Tokyo .

Awards

The production of The Trial was awarded the Prix ​​Ubu in 1999. Corsetti received the European Theater Prize for “New Theater Realities” .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 316; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
  2. ↑ a b c Theater St. Gallen Giorgio Barberio Corsetti ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on February 13, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theatersg.ch
  3. ↑ Fattore K. accessed on February 13, 2016
  4. ^ Mariinsky Theater Giorgio Barberio Corsetti , accessed on February 13, 2016 (English).
  5. ^ Nobuko Tanaka: Tokyo Festival looks to throw open some doors. In: The Japan Times. October 10, 2018, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Corsetti, Giorgio Barberio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian theater director, opera director, dramaturge and stage actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome