Eleonora Peronetti

The set and costume designer Eleonora Peronetti works in the fields of opera, dance, video and fashion design. Following her studies at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arte (NABA) in Milan she worked as an assistant set designer to Margherita Palli at renowned Italian theatres.

Since 2019 she has regularly created costumes for the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj’s dance productions, including Winterreise at La Scala, Milan, Birthday Party at the Chaillot Théâtre national de la Danse in Paris, Torpeur at the Festival Montpellier Danse, Requiem(s) at the Théâtre Paris-Villette and Licht at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. In 2024 she designed costumes for Stefania Ballone’s choreography Grimm at the Alberta Ballet.

Since 2023 she has regularly worked as a set designer with Davide Livermore, including for the double bill of Marco Tutino’s La Lupa and Il berretto a sonagli at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Turandot at La Scala, Milan, the world premiere of Khamit Shangaliyev’s opera Khan Sultan. Altyn Orda at the Abai Kazakh National Opera in Almaty, Das Rheingold at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Die Walküre at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria at the Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli in Cremona.

She has also designed sets for La bohème at the Teatro Regio in Parma (directed by Marialuisa Bafunno), Philip Glass’s The Voyage at Klaipėda State Music Theatre (directed by Chiara Osella), the theatre production The Headlands — I luoghi della mente after Christopher Chen at the Teatro Biondo in Palermo (directed by Lulu Helbæk and Simone Ferrari) and Shangaliyev’s Bekzat in Turkestan (directed by Carlo Sciaccaluga).

Projects in the 2025/26 season include(d) Pagliacci at the Armenian National Opera in Yerevan (directed by Mario Acampa), along with Die Walküre in Monte Carlo, Davide Tramontano’s Cronaca di un amore in Piacenza, Rigoletto in Daegu and Le Siège de Corinthe at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, all directed by Davide Livermore.

Alongside her work in theatre, she creates set designs for fashion and music events. She has a long-term working relationship with the agency Blearred Milano, for which she has designed sets for several music shows featuring artists such as Tedua, Alessandra Amoroso, Lazza, Marco Mengoni, Bresh and Anna Pepe.

Eleonora Peronetti has taught set design at NABA since 2018.