director, choreographer & visual designer (set, lighting)..After his studies in the University of Bergamo and Bologna Giuseppe Frigeni moved to Paris where he studied contemporary dance with Françoise and Dominique Dupuy, Carolyn Carlson, Andy DeGroat, Steve Paxton, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, José Montalvo,.... He collaborated as choreographer with Patrice Chéreau on "WOZZECK", "DON GIOVANNI" and with Peter Stein on "WOZZECK" and "LIBUSSA", with Luca Ronconi on "DON GIOVANNI". with Klaus Michael Grüber on "TRISTAN UND ISOLDE","OTELLO","LA TRAVIATA", "BORIS GOUDONOV".
For many years he has worked with Robert Wilson, first as assistant and then as co-director and choreographer, on videos, theatre & opera productions like:"MARTYRE de SAINT SEBASTIAN","DIE_ZAUBERFLÖTE","BUTTERFLY","T.S.E.","PROMETEO
/Nono","PELLEAS & MELISANDE","OEDIPUS REX", "4 SAINTS IN 3 ACTS","DON.JUAN ULTIMO","DONNA DEL MARE","ALICE IM BETT","SNOW ON THE MESA","MONSTERS OF GRACE","ERWARTUNG", "BLUEBEARD'sCASTLE","ALCESTE","ORFEO& EURYDICE","FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN",...
Since 1998 is directing and designing is own opera & dance productions. His career has seen him working in many of the major opera houses and festivals in the world: The Salzburg Festival, Opéra Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet, Maggio Fiorentino, NY Metropolitan Opera, Opéra de Genève, Houston Grand Opera, Schaubühne Berlin, Ruhr Triennale, Théâtre de la Monnaie, Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Teatro Real Madrid, Festival d'Aix, LaScala MilanoAmong his projets:
a revival of Dusapin's "Passion" for the Luxembourg Opera, the new production of Monteverdi's "Orfeo" in LaScala with Robert Wilson, the revival of Messiaen's "Saint Francois" at Teatro Real Madrid, a monodrame by Jan VanDePutte for the Musikgebouwe in Amsterdam and an adapted version of Woolf '"Waves" for actrice and video installation.WORKS==========================================
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¤2009. I AM HER MOUTH by Jan Van DePutte @Musikgebouwe, Amsterdam (staging, set & light design)
¤2009. TRAVIATA by Verdi @Opera Lyon (Director: Klaus M.Grüber / choreographer: Giuseppe Frigeni)
¤2009. PARTENOPE by Haendel @Teatro Comunale Ferrara (staging, set & light design)
¤2008. TRAVIATA by G.Verdi @St.Gallen Theater (staging, set & light design)
¤2008. PASSION by Pascal Dusapin @Festival Aix 2008 (staging & set design)
¤2008 BORIS GODOUNOV by Modest Mussorgsky @Opera Zürich (Director: Klaus M.Grüber / choreographer: Giuseppe Frigeni)
¤2008 FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN by Richard Strauss @Opera Bastille, Paris (director & designer: Robert Wilson / co-director: Giuseppe Frigeni)
¤2007 BORIS GODOUNOV by Modest Mussorgsky @Teatro Real de Madrid (Director: Klaus M.Grüber / choreographer: Giuseppe Frigeni)
¤2007 TURANDOT by Giacomo Puccini @Auditorium de Tenerife (director & set designer)
¤2007 FIDELIO by Ludwig van Beethoven @Opèra de Bordeaux (director, set & light designer)
¤2006 A LITTLE MADNESS IN THE SPRING Music by I.ter Shirporst, F.Durieux & A.PinhoVargas @CasaDa Musica, Porto (staging, set & light designer) ¤2006 BORIS GODUNOV ,opera by Mussorgsky @La Monnaie, Bruxelles (Director: Klaus M.Grüber / choreographer: Giuseppe Frigeni)
¤2004 WET SNOW Opera by Jan van de Putte @Holland Festival-Opera Zuid (staging, set & light designer)
¤2004 LE FOU Opera by Marcel Landowsky @Théâtre Mogador- Châtelet ((staging, set & light designer) / Digital images: Servovalve)
¤2003 LOHENGRIN Opera by Richard Wagner @Opéra de Bordeaux (staging, set & light designer)
¤2003 SAINT FRANCOIS D'ASSISE Opera by Olivier Messiaen @RuhrTriennale 2003 (staging: Giuseppe Frigeni / Set designer: Ilya Kabakov)
¤2003 TURANDOT Opera by Giacomo Puccini @Teatro Comunale di Modena (staging & set designer)
¤2003 JOAS by Benedetto Marcello @CasaDaMusica, Porto ((staging, set & light designer) lighting designer)
¤2002 DER JASAGER Opera by Kurt Weil & B.Brecht @Opera de Montpellier (staging, set & light designer)
¤2002 MACBETH Opera by Giuseppe Verdi @Opéra de Bordeaux (staging, set & light designer)
¤2000 MACBETH Opera by Giuseppe Verdi(first version) @Opera Zuid, Maastricht ((staging, set & light designer)
¤1998 VAGHE STELLE DELL'ORSA a dance-theatre in hommage to Tarkovsky, with film @Orsay (France)==========
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Furie son dell'alma mia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGhhn5cLqUU
Partenope "Barbaro fato"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drle98_B1vM
Furibondo spira il vento
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbQYFh7zrFE
Ch'io parta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF85OUCvyuI
Partenope Accademia Bizantina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpjSLmE7lW4
