Gianluca Falaschi

Gianluca Falaschi studied architecture and theatre in his home city of Rome, graduating from the Accademia Costume & Moda.

He has worked for renowned theatres throughout Europe, including La Scala, Milan, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Zurich Opera House, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Semperoper Dresden, the Vienna State Opera, the Cologne Opera, Theater Basel, the Mainz State Theatre and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and for the Sydney Opera House. He has designed costumes for more than 100 opera, theatre and ballet productions.

He has worked with Davide Livermore on more than thirty productions, including six productions at La Scala. Since 2025 he has been creating costumes for Livermore’s production of Wagner’s Ring in Monte Carlo.

He has also created costumes for Lydia Steier’s productions of Les Troyens at the Semperoper Dresden, Carmen in Cologne, and Dusapin’s Perelà, uomo di fumo and Gluck’s Armide in Mainz. He worked with Barrie Kosky on Die lustige Witwe in Zurich and on Così fan tutte in Vienna.

For the Alberta Ballet he created the costumes for Benjamin Pech’s choreography of Swan Lake, and for Francesco Ventriglia’s choreographies of The Wizard of Oz, Boléro, Don Quixote and The Nutcracker. He has also worked on a production of The Nutcracker in Rome with the choreographer Paul Chalmer.

For several years Gianluca Falaschi has also been active as a director. He has directed Porpora’s Angelica at the Festival della Valle d’Itria, Adriana Lecouvreur in Mainz and Düsseldorf, Vivaldi’s Griselda in Venice, I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Catania, Donizetti’s Chiara e Serafina in Bergamo and Turandot in Mainz. In 2027 he will direct L’italiana in Algeri in Monte Carlo.

Gianluca Falaschi has won awards including the Premio Abbiati, the Premio Ubu and the Premio Le Maschere del Teatro Italiano. In 2015, 2017 and 2024 he was voted Costume Designer of the Year by the critics’ survey of the magazine Opernwelt. In 2024 he was named a Maestro d’Arte e Mestiere by the Fondazione Cologni.