Fabio Barettin was born in 1961 in Venice, after studying the methods of lighting and creativity. In 1992, he joined the technical team of La Fenice Theater in Venice and began his career as a lighting designer with many international directors of operas and ballets. He collaborates with Venetian theaters such as Palafenice, Teatro Malibran, Goldoni and Teatro la Fenice, in international cooperation with Covent Garden in London and Rai (Italian radio and television).

He also collaborates with the Rovigo Public Theater, the Verdi Theater from Padua, the Teatro Carignano in Turin, the Teatro Comunale from Bologna, the Teatro del Giglio from Lucca, the Teatro Alla Scala from Milan, and the Teatro Greco Barcelona, the Havana National Theater. , Monte Carlo Opera, Orchard Hall and Tokyo Bunkamura, Pauly Pechino Theater, Marseille Opera, and others ...

He collaborates with such directors as Roberto Simone, Maurizio Scaparro, Pierre Luigi Pizzi, Michel Plasido, Ermanno Olmi, Jurgen Flimm and Paul Curran ...

He creates, among other things, the lights of the operas Ariadna au Naxos, Der Rosenkovalier, Tales of Hoffmann, Don Giovanni, Falstaff, La Gazza Ladra, Italian Love in Algeria, Madame Butterfly, Manon Lesko, Orfeo Ed Eurydice ”,“ Othello ”,“ Parsifal ”, Romeo and Juliet, La Scala di Seth, Skiaccianoci Lot, Simon Boccanegra, La Traviata, Werther, but also for many shows or set designs.

Since March 2010, he has been teaching lighting engineering and design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.

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