Diego Siliano

The Argentine artist Diego Siliano studied stage design and the theatrical arts at the Universidad del Salvador v Buenos Aires. He is currently teaching at the National University Art Institute (IUNA, Buenos Aires), and he is active as a creative visual artist both at home and abroad. In 1995 he won the Héctor Basaldúa Award, conferred jointly by the Teatro Colón and the Museum of Modern Art.

Diego Siliano refined his signature as a stage designer during his decade-long engagement at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. He later left for the United States, where he worked for five years as a visual artist for various companies and film studios in Hollywood. In his work he emphasizes the use of multimedia technology, and his most recent work has been in the field of virtual stage design.

During his career, he has created stage designs for many of South America’s most important opera stages, including those in Argentina: Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires – Wozzeck (Alban Berg), Boris Godunov (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky), Peter and the Wolf (Serge Prokofiev), Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi), Dialogues des Carmélites (Francis Poulenc), the theatre Buenos Aires Lírica – La traviata (Verdi), Teatro Avenida – Le nozze di Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), Werther (Jules Massenet), in Chile: Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile – Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Dmitri Shostakovich), Bluebeard’s Castle (Béla Bartók), Tristan und Isolde (Richard Wagner), The Turn of the Screw (Benjamin Britten), and in Brazil: the theatre Manaus – Verdi’s and Rossini’s Otello. In Mexico he created stage design for Palacio de Bellas Artes – Dialogues des Carmélites. In France he has worked on a production of Verdi’s Macbeth (Nice).

Besides operas, he has also worked on stage plays including Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Terry McNally), The Fox and the Grapes (Jean de la Fontaine), Oedipus the King (Sofokles), Salome (Oscar Wilde), and on ballets including Don Quijote (Ludwig Minkus). Also of importance are his projects for the experimental stage of the Teatro Colón: Coffee Cantata (Johann Sebastian Bach), Mahagonny-Songspiel (Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil), Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures (György Ligeti) and others.