Romeo Castellucci

Director and stage, lighting, and costume designer Romeo Castellucci (Cesena, Italy, 1960) is known throughout the world for creating a theater founded on the totality of the arts and aimed at an integral perception.

His theater engages in a type of dramaturgy that overturns the primacy of literature, thus becoming a complex and supple form of art, a theater made of extraordinarily rich images expressed in a language as comprehensible as music, sculpture, painting, or architecture.

His stagings are regularly invited and produced by the most prestigious international theaters, opera houses, and festivals in over sixty countries across all continents. In his career, he has received important prizes and awards.

In March 2024, Bérénice, a monologue based on Jean Racine, debuted with Isabelle Huppert.

In 2025, he made his debut at the Venice Biennale with “I mangiatori di patate – The Potato Eaters,” a performance staged on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, and in Geneva with a version of Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater,” performed by Barbara Hannigan and Jacub Josef Orlinski. In 2026, he appeared for the first time at La Scala in Milan with “Pelléas et Mélisande,” and again at the Salzburg Festival with “Saint François d’Assise.”