Eleonora Peronetti
Eleonora Peronetti is an Italian stage and costume designer. After her academic studies in set design at NABA (Milan), she began her activity alongside Margherita Palli, with whom she collaborated on the design of opera and prose productions for directors such as Mario Martone, Valter Malosti and Henning Brockhaus, and on important exhibitions at the Triennale in Milan, the MA*GA in Gallarate and the Palazzo del Governatore in Parma. Her main works alongside Margherita Palli include Balanchine’s Nutcracker (2018), then Khovanshchina (2019), Rigoletto (2022) and Fedora (2022) directed by Martone at La Scala.
She has collaborated in numerous opera productions by Giò Forma directed by Davide Livermore, including Tosca (2019) and Macbeth (2021), both season-opening operas at La Scala, La traviata (2021) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Giovanna d’Arco (2021) at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. She collaborates with Gary Mc Cann in 2022 for L’amico Fritz, at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and in 2023 for Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.
After her debut at Margherita Palli’s side, she very soon began her career on her own, collaborating continuously with prestigious opera houses, designing sets and costumes in theatres and festivals of national and international relevance, as well as following pioneering projects capable of significantly innovating the languages of music, choreography and fashion.
Since 2019 she has been designing costumes for Angelin Preljocaj’s créations, collaborating first in Winterreise at La Scala, then designing the costumes for Birthday Party at the Chaillot Theatre in Paris (candidate for the Fedora Prize in 2023), Torpeur at the Montpellier Festival and the very recent Requiem(s) at the Théâtre de la Villette in Paris.
She co-designed the sets for La lupa-Il berretto a sonagli (2024), world premiere at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, and with Davide Livermore and Paolo Gep Cucco the sets for Turandot (2024) at the Teatro alla Scala.
Outside the strictly theatrical context, for two consecutive years, in 2023 and 2024, she also curates the scenographic installation of the Festival della Seta for FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano.
As a stage designer, she was a finalist in the LNOBT Vilnius Competition (2022) and in the European Opera Directing Prize (2023) and, in 2024, she is the winner of the OperaLombardia competition for La bohème, and the winner of the Klaipėda State Music Theatre competition for Philip Glass’s The Voyage designing the sets for both productions.
Since 2021 she has been continuously following artist Tedua’s projects, including his stage design project for the first highly acclaimed rap tour with theatre sets in Italian musical history. Since 2016 she has also been a stage designer for the Outfit company, designing sets for major fashion events for Canali, FILA, Sergio Rossi, Sisley, Aigner. She has also collaborated on the writing of the manual Dizionario Teatrale, edited by M. Palli, and Il Corridoio Rosso, edited by G. Agosti.
Since 2018 she has been a lecturer in the Scenography course at NABA.
