CICORELLA ELENA
Costume and Set Designer
elena.cicorella@gmail.com
Web site: https://elenacicorelladesigner.it/
WORK EXPERIENCES
2026
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO POLITEAMA ROSSETTI, Trieste/ TEATRO BRANCACCIO, Roma/ TEATRO ARCIMBOLDI, Milano
"THE PORINCE OF EGYPT" MUSICAL
Director: Federico Bellone
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO DELL'OPERA, Roma (Italy)
"IL TRIONFO DEL TEMPO E DEL DISINGANNO" Händel
Director: Robert Carsen
Costume and Set designer: Gideon Davey
2025
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO LA FENICE, Venezia (Italy)
"WOZZECK" Berg
Director: Valentino Villa
COSTUME DESIGNER COLLABORATOR
TEATRO ALLA SCALA, Milano (Italy)
"TRIPTYCH'S WEILL"
Die sieben Todsünden
Mahagonny Songspiel
The Songs of Happy End
Mahagonny Songspiel
The Songs of Happy End
Director: Irina Brook
2024
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO LA FENICE, Venezia (Italy)
"LA VITA E' SOGNO" Malipiero
Director: Valentino Villa
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO ALLA SCALA, Milano (Italy)
“GUILLAUME TELL” Rossini
Director: Chiara Muti / costume designer: Ursula Patzak
2023
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO ALLA SCALA, Milano (Italy)
“PETER GRIMES” Britten
Director: Robert Carsen / costume designer: Gideon Davey
REVIVAL COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO ALLA SCALA, Milano (Italia)
“ANDREA CHENIER” Giordano
Director: Mario Martone / Costume designer: Ursula Patzak
2022
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO ALLA SCALA, Milano (Italy)
"FEDORA" Giordano
Director: Mario Martone / Costume designer: Ursula Patzak
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO ALLA SCALA, Milano (Italy)
"RIGOLETTO" Verdi
Director: Mario Martone / Costume designer: Ursula Patzak
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO LA FENICE, Venezia (Italy)
"I LOMBARDI ALLA PRIMA CROCIATA" Verdi
Director: Valentino Villa
2021
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO LA FENICE, Venezia (Italy)
"FARNACE" Vivaldi
Director: Christophe Gayral
REVIVAL COSTUME DESIGNER
PALAU DES ARTS, Valencia (SPAIN)
“FALSTAFF" Verdi
Director: Mario Martone / Costume designer: Ursula Patzak
2020
REVIVAL COSTUME DESIGNER
LITHUANIAN NATIONAL OPERA, Vilnius, (LITHUANIA)
"ANNA BOLENA" Donizetti
Director: Andrea de Rosa / Costume designer: Ursula Patzak
COSTUME DESIGNER SUPERVISOR
ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVAL, Pesaro (Italy)
"LA CAMBIALE DI MATRIMONIO" Rossini
Director: Laurence Dale: / Costume designer: Gary MacCann
REVIVAL COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO NACIONAL de SAO CARLOS, Lisbon (PORTUGAL)
"MARIA STUARDA" Donizetti
Director: Andrea de Rosa / Costume designer: Ursula Patzak
2019
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO ALLA SCALA, Milano (Italy)
"GIULIO CESARE in EGITTO" Händel
Director: Robert Carsen: / Costume designer: Gideon Davey
COSTUME DESIGNER
THEATER OPERA KIEL, Kiel (GERMANY)
"LA MUETTE DE PORTICI" Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Director: Valentina Carrasco
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO DELL'OPERA, Roma (Italy)
"ANNA BOLENA" Donizetti
Director: Andrea De Rosa / Costume designer: Ursula Patzak
2018
COSTUME DESIGNER
RETE LIRICA DELLE MARCHE, Ventidio Basso Ascoli Piceno, Teatro della Fortuna Fano, Teatro dell’Aquila Fermo, Pergolesi Spontini Jesi,Chieti (Italy)
"IL TROVATORE" Puccini
Director: Valentina Carrasco
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVAL, Pesaro (Italy)
"RICCIARDO E ZORAIDE" Rossini
Director: Marshall Pynkoski: / Costume designer: Michael Gianfrancesco
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO DELL'OPERA, Roma (Italy)
"LA BOHEME" Puccini
Director: Alex Ollè – LA FURA dels BAUS / Costume designer: Lluc Castell
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO COMUNALE. Bologna (Italy)
"LA BOHEME" Puccini
Director Graham Vick / Production designer: Richard Hudson Hudson
2017
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO dell' OPERA, Roma (Italy)
"DON CHISCIOTTE" BALLETT
Choreographer: L. Hilaire /Choreography Mikhail Baryshnikov /Production designer Vladimir Radunsky
REVIVAL COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO dell' OPERA, Roma (Italy)
“IL TROVATORE" Verdi
Director: Alex Ollè – LA FURA dels BAUS / Costume designer: Lluc Castell
2016
REVIVAL PRODUCTION DESIGNER
TEATRO de LA MAESTRANZA, Seville (SPAIN)
“ANNA BOLENA" Donizetti
Director Graham Vick. / Production designer Paul Brown
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO REGIO, Torino (Italy)
"SAMSON ET DALILA" Camille Saint-Saëns
Director and Production designer: Hugo De Ana
REVIVAL PRODUCTION DESIGNER
LYRIC OPERA of CHICAGO, Chicago Illinois, (U.S.A.)
“LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR” Donizetti
Director Graham Vick. / Production designer Paul Brown
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO REGIO, Torino (Italy)
"LA BOHEME" Verdi
Director: Alex Ollè LA FURA DELS BAUS/ Costume designer: Lluc Castell
REVIVAL PRODUCTION DESIGNER
TEATRO MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO, Firenze (Italy)
“ITALIANA IN ALGERI” Rossini
Director: Joan Font / Production designer: Joan Guillèn
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO MASSIMO, Palermo (Italy)
“GOTTERDAMMERUNG” Wagner
Director: Graham Vick / Production designer: Richard Hudson
2015
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO MASSIMO, Palermo (Italy)
“SIEGFRIED” Wagner
Director: Graham Vick / Production designer: Richard Hudson
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
NATIONAL CENTER PERFORMING ARTS, Beijing (CHINA)
"SAMSON ET DALILA” Camille Saint-Saëns
Director and Production designer: Hugo De Ana
2014
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO COCCIA, Novara (Italy)
"LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN" Jacques Offenbach.
Director: Nicola Zorzi
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO REGIO, Torino (Italy)
"OTELLO" Verdi
Director: Walter Sutcliffe
COSTUME DESIGNER COLLABORATOR
HNK OPERA HOUSE – CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE, Zagreb (CROATIA)
"TOSCA" Puccini.
Director Lorenzo Mariani /Costume designer: Silvia Aymonino
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO VERDI. Pisa, TEATRO GOLDONI Livorno, TEATRO del GIGLIO Lucca (Italy)
"LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN" Jacques Offenbach.
Director: Nicola Zorzi
2013
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO COMUNALE, Bologna (Italy)
"TURN OF THE SCREW" B. Britten
Director: Giorgio Marini
PRODUCTION DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO MASSIMO, Palermo (Italy)
"DIE WALKURE" Wagner
Director: Graham Vick / Production designer: Richard Hudson
PRODUCTION DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO MASSIMO, Palermo (Italy)
"DAS REIHNGOLD" Wagner
Director: Graham Vick / Production designer: Richard Hudson
REVIVAL COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO REGIO, Torino (Italy)
“EUGENIN ONEGIN” Čajkovskij
Director: Kasper Holten/ Costume designer: Katrina Lindsay.
2012
COSTUME DESIGNER COLLABORATOR
TEATRO MASSIMO, Palermo (Italy)
"ENFANT LE SORTILEGES" "L'HEURE ESPAGNOLE" Ravel.
Director Luciano Cannito / costume designer Francesco Tullio Altan
REVIVAL PRODUCTION DESIGNER
TEATRO MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO, Firenze (Italy)
"ANNA BOLENA" Donizetti.
Director Graham Vick. / Production designer Paul Brown
REVIVAL PRODUCTION DESIGNER
TEATRO VERDI, Trieste (Italy)
" ANNA BOLENA" Donizetti.
Director Graham Vick. / Production designer Paul Brown
REVIVAL COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO MASSIMO, Palermo (Italy)
"DAMNATION OF FAUST" Berlioz
Director Terry Gilliam / costume designer Katrina Lindsay
2011
COSTUME DESIGNER
PERGOLESI SPONTINI FESTIVAL, Jesi (Italy)
"LO FRATE 'NNAMORATO" Pergolesi
Director Willy Landin
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO MASSIMO, Palermo (Italy)
"TURANDOT" Puccini
Director Willy Landin
REVIVAL PRODUCTION DESIGNER
TEATRO REGIO, Torino (Italy)
"LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR" Donizetti
Director Graham Vick. / Production designer Paul Brown
2010
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO MASSIMO, Palermo (Italy)
"DIE GEZEICHNETEN" Schrenker"
Director Graham Vick. / Production designer Paul Brown
PRODUCTION DESIGNER ASSISTANT
TEATRO MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO, Firenze (Italy)
"L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI" Rossini
Director Joan Font / Production designer Joan Guillen
2009
REVIVAL PRODUCTION DESIGNER
TEATRO MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO, Firenze (Italy)
"LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR" Donizetti
Director Graham Vick. / Production designer Paul Brown
2008
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO MASSIMO, Palermo (Italy)
"CASSANDRA" C. Wolf BALLET
Choreographer Luciano Cannito
REVIVAL PRODUCTION DESIGNER
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA HOUSE, San Francisco (U.S.A)
"LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR" Donizetti
Director Graham Vick. / Production designer Paul Brown
REVIVAL PRODUCTION DESIGNER
TEATRO MASSIMO, Palermo (Italy)
" ANNA BOLENA" Donizetti.
Director Graham Vick. / Production designer Paul Brown
2006
COSTUME DESIGNER
NATIONAL THEATRE, Belgrade (SERBIA)
"CARMEN" Bizet
Director Marco Pucci Catena
COSTUME DESIGNER
COLISEU OPERA HOUSE, Porto (PORTUGAL)
"CARMEN" Bizet
Director Mietta Corli
2005
COSTUME DESIGNER
ENTE CONCERTI MARIA DE CAROLIS Opera House, Sassari (Italy)
"LA TRAVIATA" Verdi
Director: Marco Gandini
COSTUME DESIGNER
PERGOLESI SPONTINI FESTIVAL, Jesi (Italy)
"CARMEN" Bizet
Director Wolfgang Kremer
COSTUME DESIGNER
COLISEU OPERA HOUSE, Porto (PORTUGAL)
"DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE" Mozart
Director Mietta Corli
2004
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO CARLO FELICE, Genova (Italy)
"LA TRAVIATA" Verdi
Director Marco Gandini
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO LA FENICE, Venezia (Italy)
"IL CORDOVANO" and "MORTE DELL'ARIA" Petrassi
Director Giorgio Marini
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO GRANDE Brescia., TEATRO FRASCHINI Pavia., TEATRO SOCIALE Como TEATRO DONIZETTI Bergamo, TEATRO PONCHIELLI Cremona (Italy)
"LA TRAVIATA" Verdi
Director Marco Gandini
2003
REVIVAL PRODUCTION DESIGNER
TEATRO CARLO FELICE, Genova (Italy)
"LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR" Donizetti
Director Graham Vick / Production designer Paul Brown
COSTUME DESIGNER
OLYMPIC STADIUM, Seoul (SOUTH KOREA)
"AIDA" Verdi
Director Stefano Monti
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO VERDI, Milano (Italy) THEATRE
"HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT"/"IL VIOLINO, IL SOLDATO ED IL DIAVOLO" Inspired on Stavinsky's
Director Stefano Monti
REVIVAL PRODUCTION DESIGNER
TEATRO DELL’OPERA, Roma (Italy)
"LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR" Donizetti
Director Graham Vick / Production designer Paul Brown
COSTUME DESIGNER
OPERA ROYAL WALLONIE, Liege (BELGIUM)
"IL TROVATORE" Verdi
Director Francesco Micheli
COSTUME DESIGNER
OPERA de MASSY, Massy/ L'ESPLANADE DE SAINT' ETIENNE, Saint'Etienne (FRANCE)
"IL TROVATORE" Verdi
Director Francesco Micheli
COSTUME DESIGNER
THEATRE D'AVIGNON, Avignon (FRANCE)
"CASSANDRA" C. Wolf BALLET
Choreographer Luciano Cannito
2002
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO MUNICIPALE Piacenza, TEATRO COMUNALE PAVAROTTI-FRENI Modena., TEATRO COMUNALE Ferrara., TEATRO VALLI Reggio Emilia. (Italy)
"TANCREDI" Rossini
Director Marco Gandini
COSTUME DESIGNER
VALLE D’ITRIA FESTIVAL, Martina Franca, Taranto (Italy)
"LE DUE CONTESSE" and "IL DUELLO COMICO" Paisiello
Director Marco Gandini
REVIVAL PRODUCTION DESIGNER
TEATRO REAL, Madrid (SPAIN)
"LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR" Donizetti
Director Graham Vick / Production designer Paul Brown
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO DELL’OPERA, Roma (Italy)
"LADY IN THE DARK" Kurt Weill / MUSICAL
Director Giorgio Marini
COSTUME DESIGNER
NATIONAL THEATRE O.H., Tallin (ESTONIA)
"CASSANDRA" C. Wolf BALLET
Choreographer Luciano Cannito
COSTUME DESIGNER
THEATRE D'AVIGNON, Avignon (FRANCE)
"IL TROVATORE" Verdi
Director Francesco Micheli
2001
COSTUME DESIGNER
VALLE D’ITRIA FESTIVAL, Martina Franca, Taranto (Italy)
"LA ZINGARA" Donizetti
Director Marco Gandini
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO MASSIMO, Palermo (Italy)
"LADY IN THE DARK" K. Weill / MUSICAL
Director Giorgio Marini
COSTUME DESIGNER
CORTE OSPITALE THEATRE, Rubiera, Reggio Emilia (Italy)
"FELLING'S ANATOMY" "ANATOMIA DEL SENTIMENTO" R.Barthes / THEATRE
Director: Franco Brambilla
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO SAN CARLO, Napoli (Italy)
"CASSANDRA" C. Wolf BALLET
Choreographer Luciano Cannito
COSTUME DESIGNER
OPERA DE MONTE CARLO, Monte Carlo (PRINCIPATE OF MONACO)
"JOLANTA" Tchaikowsky and "THE BEAR" Walton
Director Giorgio Marini
2000
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO CARIGNANO, Torino (Italy)
"JESUS OF NAZARETH" Dreyer / THEATRE
Director Franco Branciaroli
REVIVAL PRODUCTION DESIGNER
LICEU OPERA HOUSE, Barcelona (SPAIN)
"LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR" Donizetti
Director Graham Vick / Production designer Paul Brown
1999
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO SAN CARLO, Napoli (Italy)
"JOLANTA" Tchaikowsky. and "SUOR ANGELICA" Puccini
Director Giorgio Marini
COSTUME DESIGNER
OPERA DE LAUSANNE, Lausanne (SWITZERLAND)
"L'ORFEO" Monteverdi
Director Giorgio Marini
COSTUME DESIGNER
CORTE OSPITALE RUBIERA THEATRE, Rubiera (Italy)
"ECCE HOMO" Sanguinetti / THEATRE
Director Franco Brambilla
1998
COSTUME DESIGNER COLLABORATOR
TEATRO MASSIMO, Palermo (Italy)
"WOZZECK" Berg.
Director Giorgio Marini / Costume designer Lauro Crisman
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO RENDANO, Cosenza (Italy)
"L'OLIMPIADE" Vivaldi
Director Giorgio Marini
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO ALLA SCALA, Milano (Italy)
"CARILLON" Aldo Clementi
Director Giorgio Marini
1997
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO COMUNALE, Bologna (Italy)
"TURN OF THE SCREW" Britten
Director Giorgio Marini
COSTUME DESIGNER COLLABORATOR
D.A.M.S. THEATRE ACADEMY, Bologna (Italy)
"ENZO RE" Roversi / MUSICAL THEATRE
Director A. Picchi. / Costume designer Paolo Bertinato/ Singer LUCIO DALLA
1996
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO REGIO, Torino (Italy)
"L'ORFEO" Monteverdi
Director Giorgio Marini
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO SISTINA, Roma (Italy) / Tour in Italy
"THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST" / MUSICAL
Director Choreographer Luciano Cannito
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
TEATRO MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO, Firenze (Italy)
"LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR" Donizetti
Director Graham Vick / Production designer Paul Brown
ARTIST
POVOLETTO MUNICIPALITY, Povoletto, Udine (Italy)
"ARTETHEATRE" / EXPOSITION
Artist Elena Cicorella
1995
COSTUME DESIGNER
BALLETTO DI ROMA COMPANY, Roma (Italy)
"CASSANDRA" C.Wolf / BALLET
Choreographer Luciano Cannito
HEAD COSTUME DEPARTMENT
TEATRO RENDANO, Cosenza (Italy)
HEAD COSTUME DEPARTMENT FOR THE OPERA SEASON 1995
1993
COSTUME DESIGNER
TEATRO ROMANO Verona Festival –Teatro Degli Incamminati, Verona (Italy)
"KING LEAR" Shakespeare / ARENA THEATRE
Director Franco Branciaroli
1992
COSTUME DESIGNER
ORESTIADI FUNDATION FESTIVAL, Gibellina, Trapani (Italy)
"INTERLUDI. MUSICHE PER IL MITO DI ECO E NARCISO" Aldo Clementi
Director Giorgio Marini
COSTUME DESIGNER and HEAD COSTUME DEPARTMENT
Mondial Contemporary Dramaturgy Festival.-DYONISIA ASSOCIATION .Siena and Chianti (Italy)
“ Mondial Contemporary Dramaturgy Festival.n°10 performances” / THEATRE
1) “Ego in Arcadia” Director: Howard Barker (Great Britain).
2) “Passaggio con figure”Director: Ugo Chiti (Italy)
3) “Terra incognita” Director: Mariairene Forness (U.S.A.)
4) “Titul” Director: Alexander Galin (Russia)
5) “Une Chouette petite vien bienose’e” Director: Sony Labountansi (Congo)
6) “Wdowy” Director: Slawomir Mrozeck (Poland)
7) “Mirando al tendido” Director: Rodolfo Santana (Venezuelas)
8) “Misero Prospero” Director: Josè Sanchis Sinisterra (Spain)
9) “From zia with love” Director: Wole Soynka (Niger)
10) “Der tod meines nachbarn OttoLinke” Director: Lotjar Trolle (Germany)
COSTUME DESIGNER
C.R.T. CENTRO RICERCA TEATRALE THEATRE, Milano (Italy)
"LO ZERO TRASPARENTE" Ballejo / THEATRE
Director Carlos Martin
1991
COSTUME DESIGNER
PAOLO GRASSI THEATRE SCHOOL, Milano (Italy)
"LA CALANDRIA" Bibbiena / THEATRE
Director Giorgio Marini
COSTUME DESIGNER
CENTRAL PRODUCTION / VIDEOCLIP, Milano (Italy)
"LA GIOCONDA" LITFIBA group / VIDEO MUSIC
Director G. Di Re
1990–1993
PATTERN MAKER FOR FASHION HOUSES
- ESA TRORAZZI - HIGH FASHION, Milano (Italy)
- ANNA LENTI - PRET A PORTE, Milano (Italy)
- DE ANGELI - FURRER'S SHOP, Milano (Italy)
TEACHER
2010-2011
COSTUME DESIGN TEACHER and HEAD COSTUME DEPARTMENT
ACCADEMIA DEL COSTUME PER LO SPETTACOLO /COSTUME ACADEMY SCHOOL, Milan
Production "CARMEN" Bizet / Producer TEATRO DELL'OPERA OF MILANO Milano (Italy)
2009 – 2010
COSTUME DESIGN TEACHER
ACCADEMIA DEL COSTUME PER LO SPETTACOLO /
ACADEMY COSTUME SCHOOL, Milano (Italy)
2005–2008
COSTUME DESIGN and COSTUME HISTORY TEACHER
G.E.D. FASHION SCHOOL, Milano (Italy)
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1989–1993 Bachelor Set and costume designer. BRERA ARTS ACADEMY, Milano (Italy)
1987–1988 Certificate in High Fashion Pattern Maker. MARANGONI Institute, Milano (Italy)
1980–1985 high school Diploma in Languages: English and German. I.T.S.O.S., Milano (Italy)
PERSONAL SKILLS
Languages
Italian, Native speaker
English, Written and spoken proficiency
Spanish, Written and spoken proficiency
German, Written and spoken independent user
Computer skills PHOTOSHOP, AUTO CAD, OFFICE SUITE