Franco Colavecchia
Set and Costume Design Faculty (1996)
Scene Design, Costume Design, Drawing and Painting

Franco Colavecchia studied both stage design and painting at St. Martin’s College of Art, London, and the Slade School of Art, London University. He has taught at Harvard, SUNY-Purchase, Carnegie Mellon, Colgate, and UC San Diego. He has also served as head of scenic design at DePaul University, director of design and production at Opera Company of Philadelphia, and was resident designer and faculty member for 25 years at Juilliard. Mr. Colavecchia has designed more than 100 opera productions for companies including New York City Opera; Lyric Opera, Chicago; Houston Opera; Los Angeles Opera; Music Academy at Lobero; Opera Santa Barbara; Den Norske Oper, Oslo; Monte Carlo Opera House; Wolf Trap, Washington, D.C.; Glimmerglass Opera; Brooklyn Academy of Music; San Antonio Festival; Juilliard; Michigan Opera; and Pacific Opera, Canada. He has also designed productions on and off-Broadway and in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland as well as for PBS-TV: Carmen, “Live From Lincoln Center” and “La Boheme, Great Performances,” for which he was honored by the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences. Mr. Colavecchia has also been awarded by Artists in the Theatre, British Arts Council and Royal Society for Arts and Industry, United Kingdom.