Romeo Castellucci

Director, creator of sets, lights, and costumes, Romeo Castellucci is known over the world for creating a theater based on the totality of arts and aimed at an integral perception of the work. His theater proposes a dramaturgy that overturns the primacy of literature, making the stage a complex form of art, made up of extraordinarily rich images, expressed in an understandable language such as music, sculpture, painting, or architecture.

Castellucci's staging are still regularly invited and produced by the most prestigious international theaters, festivals and opera houses, in over sixty countries covering all continents. He was director of the Theater section at the Venice Biennale, “Artiste Associé” at the Avignon Festival and is currently “Grand Invitée” at the Milano Triennale (2021-2024), and guest director at the Schaubhüne in Berlin. The Paris Festival d’Automne has presented an anthology of his work for two consecutive years.

He has been awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic and an honorary degree from the University of Bologna, is a member of the Accadémie Royale de Belgique and has received, among other international awards, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale and two Golden Masks for Opera.

Regarding opera production in the summer 2022, Romeo Castellucci was engaged with Resurrection by Gustav Mahler at Festival Aix-en-Provence and for Salzburg Festival Bluebeard's castle by Béla Bartók followed by De temporum fine comoedia by Carl Orff (Teodor Currentzis on the podium and Romeo Castellucci directing). Regarding his theater productions, Bros continues the tour with great success.