Paolo Fantin
Set design
Paolo Fantin graduated in Stage Design at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in 2004. In May 2011 he won the prestigious music critics’ Franco Abbiati prize for the set designs of Sigismondo (Pesaro, Rossini Opera Festival), Don Giovanni (Venice, Teatro la Fenice) and Madama Butterfly (Turin, Teatro Regio). Among Fantin’s recent engagements are Kát’a Kabanová at Glyndebourne and in Copenhagen, Don Pasquale in Barcelona, Alcina in Florence, Béatrice et Bénédict in Genova, Der Rosenkavalier in Brussels and Madama Butterfly in Turin. Fantin has collaborated regularly with Damiano Michieletto on acclaimed productions since 2004. At Dutch National Opera, he created the set design for Il viaggio a Reims (2014) and Rigoletto (2016).