Alessandro’s Journey.

Graduated in electric engeneering, at 22 he starts working as tech assistant in Italian theatres, and he deepens the study on the light and its role in the live performance. He then decides to follow the path of lighting engineering, and he starts collaborating with Teatro Verdi in Salerno mainly for the opera season, working alongside directors like Riccardo Canessa, Hugo de Hana, Renzo Giacchieri and Franco Zeffirelli. He also works for drama theater with Teatro Bellini in Naples, taking care of shows like Masaniello directed by Rato Russo, la Ciociara by Roberta Torre, Bizzarra, the theatre-soap-opera by Manuela Cherubini, and the last two shows by Alessandro Gassman: Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo and Fronte del Porto.

In the dance field, he has been collaborating with many dance companies and choreographers. It all began when he meets Marco Policastro, light designer, and they work together for several dance companies, such as Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, Balletto Teatro di Torino, Ritmi Sotterrani.

In 2006 he starts an ongoing collaboration with Daniele Cipriani Entertainment, curating its events and dance shows, such as: Les Etoiles Gala, hosted in many theatres around the world, Gala Stravinsky, the Nijinsky project, Duets and Solos gala, Gala Nureyev, Soirée Rachmaninoff, some of them featured also by relevant musicians like Beatrice Rana, Mario Brunello etc. Thanks to the collaboration with DCE, he starts working for artists and international companies, like:

- Luciano Cannito with: Amarcord, Carmen and Cassandra with Rossella Brescia, and Giulietta, which was also presented in Russia thanks to an exchange project with Teatro Bolshoi Academy. He also signs the light design for The Nutcracker in collaboration with Roma City Ballet and also Cindarella;

- Amedeo Amodio, with Carmen (starring Eleonora Abbagnato), Nutcracker and Coppelia;

- Riva&Repele company, with shows Suite Italienne, Sleeping Beauty, Lili Elbe Show, Giulietta;

- Sergio Bernal Dance Company, with A night with Sergio Bernal; With Alessia Gatta/Ritmi Sotteranei he is the light designer of the work Crolli, which premiered in 2021 at Futuro Festival in Rome - for the same festival he was tech manager for the 2021-2023 editions.

In 2020 he also starts to collaborate with Giuliano Peparini as light designer and tech director for the shows: Love; Four Seasons - where the heart takes you; a special show in the framework of the World Cup in Quatar 2022; Odissea, produced by INDA (premiere at Anfiteatro di Siracusa, Sicily). With Jean Michel Désiré, light designer of Roland Petit, he worked for the full length version of Le Jeune Homme et la Mort by Petit, staged at Teatro Luciano Pavarotti in Modena and Teatro Massimo in Palermo. He is also invited to take care of the lights for the same show at La Seine Musicale theatre in Paris in March 2020. He works alongside Eleonora Abbagnato for the light design of her Giselle, which premiered at Teatro Lirico in Cagliari in September 2021.

In 2022 he starts to collaborate with Sofia Nappi/Komoco company for her new work IMA, signing its light design, and he is also in charge of redesigning the lights of her previous short works: he modifies the settings and creates new atmospheres with low colour-temperature intensity, so to enhance the performance of the dancers. The collaboration with Komoco continues in 2024 for the new production PUPO, for which he is light designer and tech director.

In 2023 he starts a collaboration with Equilibrio Dinamico dance company directed by Roberta Ferrara: he signs the light design of the production Nostos by Ferrara and Welcome to my funeral, choreographed by Brandon Lagaert. For musicals, he signs the light design of Murder Ballad by Dario Avecone/Sipari di Luce with Arianna Bergamaschi, and his last work Vlad Dracula The Musical, which premieres in 2022 and is currently touring in the best theatres in Italy. With FDF Entertainment he creates de light design for the musical Seven brides for seven brothers by Luciano Cannito.