About
Roberta Guidi di Bagno, born in Rome, studied at the Accademia Libera del Nudo in Rome. She worked as an assistant to the late director and stage designer for opera, theater and ballet, Pier Luigi Samaritani. For the past forty years she has worked extensively with several major opera companies and ballet companies around the world. Over the years, she has received a number of prestigious awards, including the "Positano Massine Prize" for Ballet (1997), the "Premio Anita Bucchi" (2011) and Giornale della Danzas "Best Costume Designer 2012".
Roberta Guidi di Bagno has designed costumes for most of the world's major ballet companies, including the Teatro alla Scala in Milan ("Paquita", Vladimir Burmeister's "Swan Lake", John Cranko's "The Taming of the Shrew", Ronald Hynd's The Funny Widow "and" The Nutcracker ", George Balanchine's" Theme and Variations, John Cranko's "Onegin"), the Teatro San Carlo of Naples (Luciano Cannito's "Amarcord"), the English National Ballet (Derek Deanes "Romeo and Juliet", " Sleeping Beauty "and" Stictly Gershwin "). She has also worked with ballet companies such as the Shanghai Ballet, the Hong Kong Ballet, the Estonian National Ballet Tallinn, the National Theater Zagreb, the National Theater Maribor, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Royal Danish Ballet and the Houston Ballet the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Semperoper Ballet Dresden, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet San Francisco, Joffrey Ballet, Tulsa Ballet and Texas Ballet Theater.
For more than 25 films, Roberta Guidi di Bagno has designed the costumes for such prominent actresses as Faye Dunaway, Lauren Hutton, Jennifer Beals, Matthew Modine and Daniel Ezralow. In 2016, she was entrusted with the costumes for Balanchine's "Coppélia" at the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet, working for the Queensland Ballet "Strictly Gershwin", for the Houston Ballet "Giselle", for the Houston Ballet at the Arts Center Melbourne " Romeo and Juliet ", for the Teatro Colon Buenos Aires" Onegin ". Several times she was entrusted with the costumes by the Dresden Semperoper Ballet, "Nutcracker", "Don Quixote", "Coppélia" and "The Taming of the Shrew". In the near future she will be working on a revival of Derek Deane's "Strictly Gershwin" for the Tulsa Ballet and "Romeo and Juliet for the Colorado Ballet.
Roberta Guidi di Bagno is for the first time committed to the Staatsballett Berlin and designs stage and costumes for Víctor Ullate's new production of "Don Quixote".