Marco Filibeck

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Marco Filibeck
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Marco Filibeck
BornMay 11, 1957
Rome
Occupation Lighting designer

Marco Filibeck (born May 11, 1957) is an Italian lighting designer.

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Biography

His father was the painter Gilberto Filibeck. Marco starts his career as lighting consolle operator, working on over two hundred live concert for Vasco Rossi between 1979 and 1984. He collaborates with different artists from the Italian music scene, like Enzo Jannacci ("Ci vuole orecchio" tour, 1981) and Loredana Bertè ("E la luna bussò" tour, 1979). [1]

In 1983, Filibeck gets a qualification as light technician at Bologna's Teatro Comunale. Two years later he's hired at Teatro alla Scala in Milan. From 1996 Marco Filibeck is lighting designer at Teatro alla Scala and in 2009 he becomes the lighting manager. During his career Filibeck has worked with the most important Italian and foreign directors, such as Franco Zeffirelli, Luca Ronconi, Liliana Cavani, Gabriele Salvatores, Àlex Ollé ( La Fura dels Baus ).

Marco Filibeck designed, starting from 2008, the lights for Roberto Bolle & Friends ballet, a recurring production hosted in the major Italian archeological sites and squares, like Colosseum in Rome, Valle dei Templi in Agrigento, piazza del Duomo in Milan, Arena di Verona and Piazza San Marco in Venice.

In 2018 he received the Franco Abbiati award for the light of the opera Hänsel und Gretel (directed by Sven-Eric Bechtolf).

Teacher

From 1999 he's professor of lighting for the "Light Designer", "Scenography" and "Direction" programs at Accademia Teatro alla Scala. In the past, Filibeck was a guest teacher at Brera Academy and Polytechnic University of Milan for the "Lighting Designer" Master program. In 2016-2017 he taught at Accademia Linguistica di Belle Arti in Genoa.

Works

Opera

Teatro alla Scala

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Other opera productions

1998

1999

2000

  • Otello, by Mietta Corli (Villa Pallavicino, Busseto)
  • La traviata , by Mietta Corli (Villa Pallavicino, Busseto)
  • La bohème , by Mietta Corli and Marina Bianchi (Teatro San Carlo, Naples)

2001

  • Il trovatore , by Mietta Corli (Castello di Vigoleno, Piacenza)

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

  • Un ballo in maschera , by Marco Gandini and Italo Grassi (Teatro del Maggio musicale, Florence)
  • Il pirata , by Pier'Alli (Teatro delle Muse, Ancona)

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

  • Il viaggio a Reims, by Marco Gandini and Italo Grassi (Teatro del Maggio musicale, Florence)

2013

2015

2016

2017

2019

2021

2022

Ballet

Teatro alla Scala

2000

2005

2006

  • Vanitas, by Fabrizio Monteverde

2010

2011

2012

2014

2015

  • Excelsior, by Ugo Dell'Ara and Filippo Crivelli

2016

  • Il giardino degli amanti, by Roberto Bolle, Massimiliano Volpini and Erika Carretta

2018

2022

Other ballet productions

2007

2008

2010

  • Don Chisciotte , by Vladimir Derevianko and Roberta Guidi di Bagno (Teatro del Maggio musicale, Florence)

2011

2016

2018

Musical

2014

Fashion

2012 - 2019

Awards

See also

Notes and references

  1. from his official website's bio

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