Ministry of Culture agrees with the decision of the Board of Directors: the green light from Rome has arrived, Andrea Cigni is the new superintendent of the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari.
He is expected in Sardinia next Tuesday to take over from Nicola Colabianchi, now at La Fenice. In the final rush he overtook the other six candidates who remained after the first screening of requests. Among them Fulvio Macciardi, former superintendent in Bologna, Valerio Vicari, artistic director of Roma 3, Antonio Marcellino, Santa Cecilia. The only female presence is that of Francesca Colombo, formerly of Florence and La Scala. And then a candidate of Sardinian origins, Roberto Pani, councilor at Reggio di Torino with five years of experience in the Council of Genoa as vice president. Among the candidates also Alberto Triola, former superintendent at Toscanini in Parma
Born in 1971, Tuscan, trained at the Dams in Bologna and a professional path marked by stage practice even before theory. Cigni has crossed the theater in its most concrete dimension, that of the body and the voice, taking his first steps as an actor, mime and assistant director. Among the initial collaborations stand out the names of masters such as Pier Luigi Pizzi, Giancarlo Cobelli, Yannis Kokkos: founding experiences that have contributed to defining a lucid and plastic directorial gaze.
His debut in opera came in 2006 with Vivaldi's Andromeda Liberata, staged in Cremona. The following year it was the turn of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. From that moment on, musical theatre became his stable home: over forty titles to his credit, signed in the most diverse international contexts - from the United States to Kazakhstan, from Palma de Mallorca to Jakarta - build a highly recognisable artistic profile, made of narrative clarity, attention to stage gesture and aesthetic coherence.
Alongside directing, a constant commitment to training and cultural planning. Cigni was Director of the Conservatory “Claudio Monteverdi” in Cremona, where he teaches Performing Arts, Musical Dramaturgy, Law and Management of Entertainment. He directed the Orizzonti Festival in Chiusi for three years, dedicated to new creations in the performing arts, and served as artistic secretary for opera at the Teatro Grande in Brescia.
