Daniele Paolin

Daniele Paolin was born in Padova in 1950. He majored in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice – Italy. He graduated in 1976 but began his work in the theater in 1971 with the Musicoteatro Company first as a Scenography Assistant and later promoted to Manager of Scenography Design. This lead to the creation and realization of numerous shows between 1971 and 1973. In 1975 he received a grant to study scenography at La Scala in Milan.
In 1976 he collaborated as Scenography Assistant with the E. A. Arena di Verona for the summer season. In 1978 and 1979 he co-founded La Bottega Veneziana s.r.l., a work-shop for the creation and realization of scenography. He managed La Bottega Veneziana until 1984 and realized approximately fifty scenography stages. All stages were commissioned by Italian and European theaters such as Il teatro alla Scala di Milano, La Fenice di Venezia, Il Filarmonico di Verona, Toulouse, and Liceu de Barcelona.
In 1984 he left La Bottega Veneziana and accepted the position of Assistant for stage effects and techniques at the summer operatic season at the E. A. Arena of Verona. In November of 1984 he was assigned Assistant for the Scenography Course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.
In 1985 he collaborated with the Teatro La Fenice di Venezia as Manager of Scenography Design responsible for scenography of the operatic seasons. He held this position till 1996 when the theater was destroyed by fire. During this time he produced more the fifty shows.
In 1997 realized "Lucia di Lammermoor" by G. Donizetti for the Staatsopera Rousse (Bulgaria), and began collaborating with the EuroStage of Amsterdam where he designed stages for "Rigoletto" by Giuseppe Verdi for the autumn 1997 season at the Staatsopera Rousse (Bulgaria).
In November 1997 he was named Professor of Scenography 2 at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milano where he continues to teach to this day. He sign the scenes of a new preparation of the Nabucco work represented in front of the historical Kaiserdom (Cathedral of the Kaiser) of the city of Speyer (Germany); for the summer festival KyrburgOpernfestspiele of Kirn/Nahe (Germany) design the stage of the opera: Carmen of Bizet and Rigoletto of Verdi G. In 2001 he has cared the setting up of a great historical display, “La dama castellana” with Carla Fracci, for Conegliano – Treviso – Italy.
In 2000, 2001, 2002, he has cared the planning and the staging of the works of the open-air festival “Klassik” in Monschau town such as “Rigoletto” and “Carmen” (2002) and for the KyrburgOpernfestspiele of Kirn/Nahe festival, “Un ballo in maschera” and “Carmen” in 2000, Nabucco and Trovatore in 2002.
In 2003 he design the stage of the multimedia performance Azione simultanea by Ezio Cuoghi and Giorgio Celli in the Cavallerizza Theater of Reggio Emilia.
In 2004 he design the stage of Aida open-air for Star Entertainment GmbH in Germany