Mauro Tinti, set designer born in Tuscany, graduated in architecture, cinema and scenography at Bologna University (DAMS). He studied theatre design at Motley Theatre Design Course in London and trained as a costume designer and costume maker at Atelier Caraco in Paris.
Recent set designs include Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra at Oslo National Opera, La fille du Regiment at OscarsborgOperaen, Carmen (also costume design) at Macerata Opera Festival, L'Empio Punito (also costume design) at Teatro Verdi, Pisa and Rinaldo at Teatro Ponchielli, Cremona, all in collaboration with director Jacopo Spirei.
Other recent set and costume designs include Tosca directed by Stefano Vizioli at Soirèe Lyriques de Sanxay, Poitiers, Rigoletto, directed by Marco Spada, at Opera Nazionale Romana and set designs for Spada’s Macbeth at Opera Nazionale by Macedonia, Skopje. Tinti also created set and costume designs for Stiffelio at Teatro Farnese for Festival Verdi, Parma, Gotterdammerung at Teatro Massimo, Palermo, Fidelio at Opera Nazionale by Bucarest, Siegfried at Teatro Massimo, Palermo, all directed by Graham Vick. Mauro Tinti also works with art exhibitions and interior and public designs and has been teaching Maquette Design och Materials and Applications vid L.UN.A. in Bologna