Emilia Zagnoli

Emilia Zagnoli was born in Milan, Italy. As a teenager she gravitated towards Milanese punk rock scene, embracing the D.I.Y. culture and aesthetics. As a young adult she flew to London where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Costume Interpretation at Wimbledon College of Arts (2013–2016). After a first experience in making hats with Edwina Ibbotson and Claire Strickland she began exploring the theatre industry in London. Here she collaborated with the costume designer Luis Carvalho on the show Out of Blixen (2017) at the Coronet Theatre and the Tony awards winner costume designer Catherine Zuber on different shows at National Theatre (J. T. Rogers‘ Oslo, 2017) and English National Theatre (Gershwin‘s Porgy and Bess, 2018). She continued working along with Zuber and her team in New York at Lincoln Center (Loewe‘s My Fair Lady, 2018) and at the Staatsoper Berlin (Verdi‘s Rigoletto, 2019).

She currently collaborates with different costume designers including Elena Beccaro for opera productions at Teatro del Maggio Fiorentino (Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, 2020), Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn (Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri, 2021; Adolphe Adam’s Le chalet suisse, 2023), Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt (Händel’s Amadigi di Gaula, 2021), Teatro La Fenice, Palau de les arts Valencia (Verdi’s Ernani, 2023) and Teatro Fraschini in Pavia (Verdi’s Don Carlo, 2023).

Zagnoli made her debut In the capacity of a costume designer with costumes for Mozart’s early comic opera La finta semplice produced at the Florence Teatro Goldoni in collaboration with the students of NABA (directed by Claudia Blersch, 2023). She has also recently presented her works at the exhibition “Zalizaza: inventario di famiglia” at the Antonio Colombo Gallery in Milan (2023). She collaborates with NABA school in Milan, where she lectures Costume Design and History of Costume.

Fin out more at https://www.emiliazagnoli.com/