<p>Luisa Spinatelli studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where she later taught. She has worked as a costume designer in the theatrical field (for Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro) and has designed sets and costumes for numerous choreographic productions, including Raymonda remounted by Asami Maki (New National Theatre, Tokyo, 2004), Tchaikovsky by Patrice Bart (Helsinki Opera, 2005), Carmen (Milan Scala) and We like Mozart (Palermo) by Amedeo Amodio, Bach by Robert North (Krefeld Theatre, Germany), a new version of The Nutcracker remounted by Jean-Yves Lormeau (Rome Opera), À bientôt by Asami Maki and Kyozo Mitani (Tokyo Bunkamura Theatre, 2006) and Faust by Luciano Cannito (Rome Opera). Since 1986, she has worked with Roland Petit, designing costumes for Clavigo (1999) and Proust ou les Intermittences du coeur (2007) at the Opéra de Paris.<br><br>It was also at the Paris Opera that she created the sets and costumes for Pierre Lacotte's Paquita (2001), as well as the new sets for George Balanchine's Liebeslieder Walzer (2003). Her opera credits include Brech's La Condanna di Lucullo, Verdi's Aïda, Andrea Chenier, Adriana Lecouvreur, La Forza del destino, Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, Kiss me Kate and La Pucelle d'Orléans at Turin's Teatro Regio, Luisa Miller at Palermo's Teatro Massimo (2004) and at the Palau des Artes de la Reina Sofia in Valencia (Spain, 2008). Her career has been crowned by numerous awards, including the Italian Positano (1989) and Quadrivio (1990) prizes and the Japanese Akiko Tachibana Prize (2005).  </p>