After her first experience at the Festival des Deux Mondes with Diane Von Fürstenberg, the Rome-born Silvia Aymonino began her career at Sartoria Tirelli, a workshop specializing in the creation of costumes for film and theater. From 1985 to 1994 she had the opportunity to work with leading costume designers such as Piero Tosi, Maurizio Millenotti, Paul Brown and Pier Luigi Pizzi.Later she specialized in opera, working on theater productions with Hugo De Ana and Giovanna Buzzi, and participating in film productions. Her experience and collaboration with Marco Balich led her to work for major events, including the ceremonies of the 2006 Turin Olympic Games, 2012 London, 2014 Sochi, 2016 Rio and the 2019 Summer Universiade, XXX edition, in Naples. In 2020, she won the 39th Franco Abbiati Award for Best Costume Design for Ferdinando Paër's Agnese. She has collaborated with directors such as Leo Muscato, Lorenzo Mariani, Jacopo Spirei, Valentina Carrasco, Damiano Michieletto, Luca Ronconi and Francesco Micheli.Recent productions include Un bal masqué, I Masnadieri and La Traviata at the Rome Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor in Bologna, Falstaff and I due Foscari at the Parma Verdi Festival, Tosca at the Gothenburg Opera, Nabucco at Bari's Teatro Petruzelli, Ernani at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, La Favorite in Bergamo, Agrippina in Bonn and, recently, Le Chapeau de paille d'Italie in Genoa, Lucretia Borgia in Rome and Attila in Venice.At the Opéra national de Paris: Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica, Il Tabarro, 2010; The Barber of Seville, 2014; Nixon in China, 2023

Silvia AymoninoCostume designer