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Paolo Fantin Set designer
Biography
Born in Castelfranco, Paolo Fantin is a graduate in scenography and stage technique from the Venice Academy of Fine Arts. He began collaborating with Damiano Michieletto in 2004. In 2011, Madama Butterfly, Sigismondo, and Don Giovanni received the Franco Abbiati Prize from music critics for their set designs.
In 2005, he designed the sets for Tutino’s La Belle et la Bête in Modena. Still in collaboration with Damiano Michieletto, he created the scenography for Lucia di Lammermoor, Luisa Miller, Poliuto, La Pie voleuse, La scala di seta, L’elisir d’amore, Così fan tutte, La bohème, Falstaff, Alcina, Un ballo in maschera, Guillaume Tell, Otello, Roméo et Juliette, Les Noces de Figaro, La vedova allegra, Macbeth, Le voyage à Reims, Rigoletto, Die Zauberflöte, Aida, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, the world premiere of Il nome della rosa, and West Side Story.
He received the International Opera Award for Best Set Designer in 2025 and designed the sets for the opening ceremony of the Milan–Cortina Winter Olympic Games in 2026. Last season, he created the set designs for Lohengrin at the Rome Opera and La clemenza di Tito at the Zurich Opera.
At the Paris Opera: Il barbiere di Siviglia (2014); Samson et Dalila (2016); Don Pasquale (2018); Don Quichotte (2024).
Currently in
- Opéra Bastille
- from 12 September to 05 November 2026
- Palais Garnier
- from 12 June to 10 July 2027
