Fernando Scarpa
Fernando Scarpa ( born December 10, 1968 in Milan ) is an internationally renowned Italian director.
Biography
Fernando Scarpa in modern German language and literature doctorate ( PhD thesis on " The Prince of Homburg von Kleist " ), and completed his acting examination at the Accademia d' Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome. With teachers such as Luca Ronconi, Mario Ferrero, Marisa Fabbri, he worked during this time. Therefore, he dominated the Italian, German and English. After his academic degree Scarpa was at the Teatro Stabile di Torino worked as an actor, with roles in " The Last Days of Mankind " ( by Karl Kraus, director Luca Ronconi (1990 ) and " The Madwoman of Chaillot " (Jean Giraudoux ), directed Luca Ronconi of ) he matured as an Italian director and head of European stature.
From 1991 to 1993, he has, inter alia, the Prince of Mantua ( De Musset, Director L. Salveti ) and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, directed by L. Salveti ), Teatro Stabile Abbruzzese (1991 ), interpreted. In his capacity as assistant director of Lorenzo Salveti (1991/1993) he has the Fedra of Seneca, Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare and one thousand and one night staged by various authors. From 1993 to 1999 he has been an assistant director and assistant to the artistic direction of Maurizio Scaparro, artistic director of several theaters in Italy and Europe (including the Teatro Stabile di Roma, Biennale di Venezia, Teatro Eliseo di Roma, Teatre des Italiens, Paris) worked.
In the years 1993/1999, as an assistant director for Maurizio Scaparro: Il teatro Comico ( Goldoni ) with Valeria Moriconi, Teatro Excelsior ( Cerami ) with Massimo Ranieri, Cirano ( Rostand ) with Pino Micol, Casanova ( Abirached ) with Giorgio Albertazzi, Memorie di Adriano ( M.Yourcenar ) with G. Albertazzi, Enrico IV ( Pirandello ) with Glauco Mauri, Le Mille e una Notte M. Ranieri and Laura del Sol, Il Gabbiano ( Checov ) with V. Moriconi, Memorias de Adriano, Spanish version with Pepe José Sancho, Urfaust (Goethe) with G. Albertazzi. He has been an assistant to Maurizio Scaparro under the artistic direction of the Compagnia Italiana (1993 /95) operates in Cinema è Teatro, an event at the carnival in Venice ( 1995), the Festival d' Autunno, in the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza (1996/ 97) has taken place, and at the Teatro Eliseo, Rome Teatro Stabile ( 1997-1999).
Fernando Scarpa 's artistic director from 1995 to 1997 at the Centro per la ricerca sui nuovi dello spettacolo Linguaggi (Centre for Research on the new languages of the theater ) was, where he has realized the following: Mostra sul teatro di Totò (Venice, Rome, Palermo, Naples, Udine, Caserta), the Convegni di teatro classico at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, the Show sull'Edipo by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Vicenza and Rome), and the Serata per la Fenice di Venezia with Valeria Moriconi, Elisabetta Pozzi. For the Teatro Eliseo, he has led and organized: Telethon, Genetica e palcoscenico with Leo Gullotta, Giorgio Albertazzi, Glauco Mauri, Massimo Ranieri ( RaiUno, Moderator Vincenzo Mollica ).
For many years - apart from his work with the stage on the side of top executives in Europe and in Italy, - he dealt successfully with the ideation and organization of Italian and European projects, even outside the theater area. He is the author of the project of the exhibition of Giacomo Casanova, which took place from Tokyo, Osaka, Prague and Edinburgh in various European cities; Producer of the international imagination thousand and one night in Palermo, Marseille, Thessaloniki, Madrid, and author of the project of staging of Goethe's Italian Journey with Klaus Maria Brandauer ( official Representative of Italy to the cultural city of Weimar 99 ).
In November 1999, is personal assistant to Klaus Maria Brandauer in the staging of Cyrano de Bergerac at the Burgtheater in Vienna, directed by Sven -Eric Bechtholf. Since February 2000 he lived in Berlin. For the Expo 2000 in Hanover at the end of the events of the Italian Pavilion, it performs the Director of the " Italian Journey " by Goethe, Alexander Simon in the role of the young Goethe. A success in the Expo Theater, for an evening of music and drama, played by the whole orchestra of the Teatro Massimo di Palermo. Further performances followed in Italy.
In June 2000, he is assistant director in the theater of the West in Berlin for the musical Falco meets Amadeus. 2000/2002 he is head of the first game TdW and Artistical supervisor of the musical FMA. In the summer of 2001 he was directing " The young Luther " by John Osborne in Wittenberg. The theater, open-air in three stages with 43 actors in the place of the Reformation, gets a lot of success and public and media attention, as well as the invitation to the opening of the festival Palermo di Scena in Palermo. For the ZDF he staged Classic! Stars guest at Senta Berger, José Carreras, José Cura.
In summer 2002, he staged Thesys, a meeting with the devil, according to different authors and was able to continue his success of "Young Luther" in the previous year. As of June 2003 took over Scarpa artistic director of the "stage Wittenberg ", a project for theater, art and culture throughout Germany. After the resumption of " Thesys " in June 2003, the international and multi-lingual play " Luther Stories" in Wittenberg will be premiered under his direction.
In November 2003 the historic Wittenberg Castle of Frederick the Wise following his production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Prince of Denmark returns to his study city and is its history back to life. In 2004, he continued the tradition since 2001, on 17 stages with the project continued, " Wittenberg on stage ." With its production of " Johann Faust - Life and death of a Witten Bergers " In 2005, he finished his work in the Lutherstadt Wittenberg.
Scarpa moved to the U.S. in order to gain experience in the American film industry. He turned in September 2005 his first work, "Brothers", which was twice awarded " Best Short Film", " Best Screenplay " and "Best directorial debut " during the NYIIFVF in Los Angeles and New York. After Scarpa successfully worked in America, he returned to Germany to perform for the musical " Martin Luther King", a large musical production with world premiere in the historic Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the heart of Berlin, Director. However, Scarpa wants to extend his stay in the States, where it is, among other projects, the feature film "White Cure ," a medical thriller produce.