The courses offered by the Stage-Workshops Department are varied and numerous and include training for scenic artists, costume designers/technicians, theatre tailors/seamstresses, hair and makeup artists, stagehands and stage technicians, set builders, mechanics, carpenters, electricians, and lighting designers. There are also highly specialized courses for audio technicians, stage photographers and videomakers.
Students of these courses learn from firsthand experience, working with Teatro alla Scala experts in order to prepare material for the season’s Scala productions. Students actually work on the Scala stage or in the theatre’s workshops.
This know-how that is passed on directly from master artisan to student recreates the ages-old tradition of the Renaissance apprenticeship and forms the basis of this department’s programs.
Another essential element of the courses is the fact that students have the opportunity to meet artists and professionals of international fame; some such figures of the past include personalities like Graham Vick, Tullio Pericoli, Luca Ronconi, Peter Stein, Roberto De Simone, Hugo De Ana, Franco Zeffirelli, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Franca Squarciapino, Luisa Spinatelli, Vera Marzot and Anne-Marie Heinreich.
Many former Academy students now work regularly for the Scala, while others collaborate with important theatres and participate in many festivals both in Italy and abroad, from Milan to Rome, Turin to Parma, and in Paris, Valencia and Madrid.
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