Limedes Lake by manuel cicchetti (Italy)
Photo © manuel cicchetti
part of my book "walking through Ampezzo Dolomites - MONOCROME"
He was born at the end of the 60s. At the beginning of the 90s he started working in the music industry for BMG, EMI designing some of their album covers.
He worked as set design photographer in some influential Italian theatres – such as Arena di Verona and Teatro Regio in Turin –, with theatre companies, orchestras and festivals. His pictures have been published in a huge number of different Italian newspapers and magazines, among which: Corriere della Sera, Repubblica, Sette, Panorama, Il giornale della Musica.
In 1999 the composer Filippo Del Corno, asked him to realise the scenography and to be the director of the pièce On the high wire by Philip Petit, inside the renowned festival Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano (SI) – Italy.
In 2001, always thanks to Filippo Del Corno, he was named director of the pièce Orfeo a fumetti by the Italian writer and illustrator Dino Buzzati, based on his "Poem Strip" (Poema a fumetti). The pièce was on stage at Suoni e Visioni Festival, The Opera was a great success and immediately staged in Turin, Mantua, Rome.
In 1995 he is one of the founder of Officium corporation, which is in charge of events such as Festa della Musica, the travelling festival W.O.M.A.D. Ski World Cup in Sestriere.
He offered his contribute as creative manager to J. Walter Thompson, Fullsix, Reply, WeberShandwinck, Hill&Knolton, Young &; Rubicam, developing advertisement campaigns and communication strategies for their customers, among which are DTC Diamond Trading Company, Nissan, BMW, Rover, Ferrero, Disney, Artemide, Zegna, ING.
Since 2001 he has followed the development of the foundation La Nuova Musica – Ricordi Music School, which today is one of the most important music educational realities in Italy and Europe.
In 2011 he established the publishing house The Music Company.