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Benito Leonori
 Set designer graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata. From 1999 to 2000 he attended the International Master Biennale (Venice Arts Festival) for young designers organized by Josef Svoboda and Ezio Frigerio, with the cooperation of “Theatre de l’Europe”. In 1992 he began collaborating with the director Henning Brockhaus and the set designer Josef Svoboda for several opera productions: La Traviata (Macerata Opera, winner of “Premio Abbiati 1992”), Il Matrimonio Segreto (Staatsoper in Berlin, 1993), Lucia di Lammermoor (Macerata Opera, 1993; Ventidio Basso in Ascoli Piceno, 1994; Bunkamura in Tokyo, 1999), Rigoletto (Macerata Opera, 1993), Macbeth (Roma Opera, 1995; Bunkakaikan in Tokyo, 2000; Budapest Opera, 2002), Attila (Macerata Opera 1995). Since 1996 he has collaborated with the stage designer Ezio Tuffolutti and Csaba Antal creating the stage set for Elektra by Strauss (performed in 2004 at the Opera of Rome), Madama Butterfly (Macerata Opera), Tosca (Sperimentale in Spoleto), Medea (Spoleto and Teatro Nazionale in Roma), Rigoletto (Festival Verdi at Regio in Parma), Don Chisciotte of Cervantes (Cavallerizza R. Emilia). In 2003 he designed set for El Cimarrón of Henze (dir. Henning Brockhaus) and he was awarded with critics’ prize “Premio Abbiati”; performed in Emilia (2004), at Ravello Festival and at Festival Terra of Teatri (2005). He designed the set for the ballet performance of young artists Lomasymasol, selected at Festival Feten in Spain. In 2005 he is the author of stage set designs for the opera Tristano ed Isotta at Nakano Zero in Tokyo and in 2006 for the musical Paolo & Francesca at Comunale in Latina. During the artistic season 2004/2005 he was the Staging Director at Macerata Opera. Since 2005 he is the Technical Director of Pergolesi Spontini Foundation. At Pergolesi Spontini Foundation he is author of stage set designs for Musica per un Treno a Vapore (2005), and he designed the projects for several expositions: Gaspare Spontini, biografia per immagini at Teatro of Erfurt in Germania (2006), Spontini e Mozart. Documenti e immagini at Palazzo della Signoria in Jesi (2006), Da Parigi a Milano: l'avventura de La Vestale in Maiolati Spontini (2007).
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