CURRICULUM VITAE FRANCESCO PITITTO

FRANCESCO PITITTO

Dramaturg and visual artist. In the 1977 translate, with Giuseppe Ferrari, Cinema according to Hitchcock by Truffaut-Pratiche Editrice, cult of film publishing. In the 1982 creates cultural programs for Rai3. In the 1986 founded in Parma, with Maria Federica Maestri, Lenz Refractions, rigorous and innovative research theater reported by the critic Giuseppe Bartolucci. Wins the Orizzonti Dramaturgy In-finita award, president Cesare Milanese, with the original text Even though they live on earth, men are boats inspired by Mayakovsky. He is the author of original rewrites and dramaturgy of great classical authors including Büchner, Lenz, Mayakovsky, Hölderlin, Kleist, Shakespeare, Goethe, Grimm, Calderón de la Barca, Andersen, Genet, Ovidio, Virgilio, D'Annunzio, Ariosto, Dante, Aeschylus, Euripides. Calderoni's operas are performed in various Spanish cities – the first of The Constant Prince takes place in Alméria – and receive the applause of the authoritative baroque theater scholar Ricard Salvat. In the same period he made a documentary Controman melancholy in Morocco. In the 1997 he was awarded the Prize for Theatrical Research by the National Association of Theater Critics. In the 1999 the work Him-light she is invited by Ronconi to the Festival del Teatro d'Europa of the Piccolo Teatro and Davico Bonino describes her absolute originality in RAISAT. Subsequently the works snow-white e Cinderella of Grimm are invited to Lille, Madrid, Cairo, Olot, Arles and Ivry; he makes several documentary films including Figure Mosse in a therapeutic community, Imagoturgy to the Prado, Lenz in the Cathedral in the Cathedral of Parma; Little Red Riding Hood, of which he takes care of the direction, inaugurates the first Festival of Social Interactions directed by Claudio Meldolesi at the Duse Theater in Bologna; Life is a dream, she is invited to the Almagro Classical Theater Festival; the Little Mermaid, production included in Hans Cristian Andersen 2005 Foundation’s Celebrations, at the Salamanca Festival. Dal 2009 al 2014 cures the imagery of Exile, made in Romania and The box, performed by the Prometeo ensemble directed by Marco Angius, supervision by Salvatore Sciarrino; takes care of dramaturgy and imagoturgy of Hamlet at the Farnese Theater in Parma, e di Adelchi, Lenz's second work on Manzoni's works later The Betrothed. Dal 2014 to date he creates images for the staging of Verdi Re Lear (Festival Value 2015); of the two-year project dedicated to Furious; Of Auto-da-fé (Festival Value 2016); Of Purgatory e Paradiso (Festival Value 2017); of The Great Theater of the World (2018), Life is Dream (2019), violent hippogriff, Flowers like stars?, Other state (invited in 2021 at the Venice Biennale Teatro), violent hippogriff; Life is a dream at the Valserena Abbey, chapters of the four-year project The Imminent Past for Parma 2020+21 Capital of Culture. Among the musical collaborations: In the 2017 crea Imagoturgy for a concert on the occasion of the inauguration of the seventeenth-century Grand Staircase of Pilotta di Parma, the live concert is performed simultaneously at the Farnese Theater by Robin Rimbaud, art name Scanner, tra i compositori più importanti della scena elettronica mondiale e autore delle musiche di Verdi Re Lear e di Caperucita Roja, scenic rewriting from Garcia Lorca's opera and staged at the Colorno Palace. With Lillevan Recherche, another composer of international standing and of many works by Lenz, crea Oresteia Concerto – imagoturgy for the three-year project on tragedy – performed live on the visual sequences. In the 2020 Lenz is among the winners of the Culture for All call, culture of all of Parma, Italian Capital of Culture 2020-2021, promoted by the Municipality of Parma and the Institute for artistic heritage, cultural and natural areas of the Emilia-Romagna Region. OPERA SULL’OPERA – ogni uomo è un artista – it is a digital engagement experience that involves the introduction of sessions touch painting during museum visits, in which the visitor is invited to create his own work on the exhibited work through the interposition of a transparent screen that allows, via touch and in interactive mode, to re-draw the work creating a new digital artistic artefact. In the 2021 participates in an international conference on Spanish Baroque Theater promoted by the Instituto Cervantes. He writes the text and creates the imagoturgy for The Creation from Haydn's work and Milton's Paradise Lost, commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, primo capitolo del nuovo progetto quadriennale ispirato alle Sacre Scritture. Numerous critics and theater scholars write about Lenz's works, dance and visual arts, including Vallejo, Paintings, Manzella, Ercolani, Distefano, Palaces, Marino, Sleep, Drink, Acquaviva, Ottolenghi, Rizzo, Chimenti, Piergiacomi, Mei, Olivieri, Brighenti, Serrazanetti, Azzoni, Lei, Lotano, Arrigoni, Laughter, Zanon, Pesce.

In the 2022 gli viene assegnato insieme a Maria Federica Maestri il Premio Sant’Ilario, l’attestato di civica benemerenza della Città di Parma.