Born in Castelfranco, Paolo Fantin graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice with a degree in scenography and stagecraft. He has been working with Damiano Michieletto since 2004. In 2011, Madame Butterfly, Sigismondo and Don Giovanni received the Franco Abbiati Music Critics' Award for set design. In 2005 he designed the sets for Tutino's Beauty and the Beast in Modena.With Damiano Michieletto, he also designed the sets for Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Corsaro, Luisa Miller and Poliuto in Zurich, and La Pie voleuse, Sigismondo, La Scala di seta and La Donna del lago in Pesaro, Le Barbier de Séville in Geneva, L'Élixir d'amour in Valencia and Madrid, Così fan tutte in Tokyo (sets and costumes), Martinů's Greek Passion in Palermo, Triptych at the Theater an der Wien and in Copenhagen, La Bohème, La Bohème, Falstaff and Alcina at the Salzburg Festival, Un bal masqué at La Scala in Milan, The Rake's Progress in Leipzig, Guillaume Tell, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci at the Royal Opera House in London, Otello and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Theater an der Wien, Romeo and Juliet, The Marriage of Figaro, The Merry Widow and Macbeth at La Fenice in Venice, Le Voyage à Reims and Rigoletto in Amsterdam, The Magic Flute in Florence and Venice, Der ferne Klange in Frankfurt. In Italy he works with Stefano Patarino on Britten's Le Petit Ramoneur and Menotti's Amahl ou les visiteurs de la nuit, with Paolo Valerio on Sette piani after Buzzati and with Andrea Bernard on La Scala di seta.In recent seasons, he has designed the sets for Kátia Kabanová in Copenhagen, Animal Farm in Amsterdam and Vienna, Julius Caesar in Egypt in Leipzig, Aida in Munich, Les Contes d'Hoffmann in Sydney and Venice, Medea at La Scala in Milan and The Magic Flute in Rome. During the 2024-2025 season, he will be designing the sets for West Side Story in Rome, Le Chapeau de paille d'Italie in Genoa and Il Nome della Rosa in Milan, among others.At the Opéra national de Paris: The Barber of Seville, 2014; Samson et Dalila, 2016; Don Pasquale, 2018; Don Quixote, 2024

Paolo FantinSet designer