Fiammetta Baldiserri studied Earth Sciences, specialising in geophysics, at the University of Bologna, and later trained in lighting design at the Teatro Regio in Parma, where she began working as a lighting technician.
As a lighting technician and programmer, she worked from 1987 to 1998 at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, and continued until 2004 at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. She also assisted renowned lighting designers such as Sergio Rossi, Guido Levi and A.J. Weissbard on various international tours.
Baldiserri made her debut as a lighting designer in 2002 with La traviata directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and created the lighting for its revival at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
She has maintained a long-standing collaboration with director Silvia Paoli, designing lighting for Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci at the Opéra de Toulon, Tosca and Iphigénie en Tauride at the Opéra national de Lorraine, Astarto at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, Enrico di Borgogna at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, L’empio punito at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, and Aleko and Pagliacci at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
She has also worked with stage directors such as Davide Livermore, Andrea Cigni, Stefano Simone Pintor, Arnaud Bernard, Jacopo Spirei, Roberto Catalano, Aleksander Sakurov, Rodula Gaitanou and Frederik Wake-Walker.
Her work has been seen at major theatres and opera houses in Italy and abroad, including Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Rossini Opera Festival, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Regio in Parma, the Opera House in Almaty (Kazakhstan), Charleston Festival in South Carolina, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Opéra national de Lorraine, Minnesota Opera, Shangyin Opera House (Shanghai), and the Royal Opera House Muscat (Oman), among others.
From 2007 to 2017, she taught lighting for theatre as part of the Scenografia del Melodramma course at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna. Since 2009, she has been in charge of the lighting design for exhibitions at the Musei di San Domenico in Forlì.