Giuseppe di Iorio, lighting designer from Naples, studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. During the 2022/23 season, he also will set the light for Otello at the Oscarsborg Opera in Norway, La forza del destino at the Verdi Festival, Parma. Last season he made lighting designs for Opera Aslico’s outdoor performance of Elisir d’amore at Lake Como, Sophocles King Oedipus at the Syracuse Festival, The Masked Ball at the Verdi Festival in Parma and at the Royal Danish Opera, La fille du régiment at the Oscarsborg Opera, La traviata and Trovatore at the Teatro alla Verdura in Palermo.
Giuseppe di Iorio has made lighting designs for a variety of productions in major opera houses such as Farnace at La Fenice in Venice, Parsifal at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Ermione at San Carlos in Naples, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutti and Le nozze di Figaro at the Rome Opera, Die Tote Stadt at the Teatro alla Scala, Carmen and The Magic Flute at the Sferisterio Festival in Macerata. Furthermore, Gluck's Ipermnestra at the Glyndebourne Festival, My Fair Lady and Singing in the Rain in Chicago, Théâtre Châtelet in Paris and at the Mariinsky Theater in St Petersburg where he also worked with War and Peace, The Macropulos Affair and Boris Godunov. Other highlights include Tristan und Isolde and Anna Bolena at São Carlos in Lisbon, Fidelio and Falstaff in Bucharest and Morgen und Abend at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Staatsoper Berlin. In 2018 Giuseppe di Iorio received Abbiati Prize for his work with La bohème at the Opera House in Bologna, he also received the award 2017 for Stiffelio at the Verdi Festival in Parma and in 2013 for Das Rheingold at Massimo Theatre in Palermo. At the Gothenburg Opera, he has previously made the lighting design for Idomeneo 2016 and Lady Macbeth from Mzensk 2012.