PORTRAIT – This Italian designer, who created the costumes of The Cunning widow, at Bouffes Parisiens, has worked for fifty years for opera, cinema and theater in the heart of the City of Doges.
He was present on stage on the evening of the premiere at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens when the enchanted audience applauded wildly at The Cunning widow, by Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Giancarlo Marinelli, with Caterina Murino and Sarah Biasini.
With his curly silver hair, his small round glasses, his sparkling smile surrounded by a thin beard, the Italian stylist Stefano Nicolao appears elegant in his dark blue suit and his matching clutch, almost shy. Back in Venice, in his workshop in Cannaregio, located near the Canal, the costume designer looks back on this memorable theatrical evening.
« The standing ovation that took place at the end of the show was a real satisfaction for me, he remembers. Especially since the actors had told me, shortly before, that my costumes were very comfortable. Above all, what gives me pleasure is to be told : “I am free to move or my boots are not too tight.” That…
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