ALDO BUTI

Scenografo e costumista

 


Piazza di San Cosimato 63
00153 Roma - Italy
Tel - 06/5897178
buti.aldo@libero.it

 

CURRICULUM VITAE


Diploma in Set Design from the 'Accademia di Belle Arti' in Rome. Subsequently worked for Anna Anni and Piero Tosi.
Nominated for the 'Donatello Award' (the Italian Oscar), the 'Silver Ribbon' and the 'Golden Ciak' for costumes in Mauro Bolognini's film "La Venexiana" (1986).
Winner of the "Premio Qualità" (Quality Reward) for the following cinema productions:
"La Venexiana" (1986), "La Maschera" (1988).
Winner of the AGIS Award (Best Costume and Set Design) for the following theatre productions: "Miseria e Nobiltà" (1989), "Inner Voices" (1991), "L'Amico di Papà" (1992), "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1990).


THEATRE

I Burosauri - by S. Ambrogi, directed by Donato Sannini, with Roberto Benigni, Carlo Monni, Anna Montinari...
Teatro dei Satiri, Rome, 1972 (sets and costumes).

Le Favole del Basile - by G.B. Basile, directed by Lucia Poli, with Lucia Poli, Roberto Benigni, Lina Bernardi, Gigliola Funaro...
Teatro Argentina, Rome, 1973 (sets).

La Festa - by Lucia Poli, directed by Lucia Poli, with Lucia Poli, Roberto Benigni, Gianfranco Varetto...
Teatro Beat 72, Rome, 1974 (costumes).

Uno Strano Labirinto - by F.S. Maynas, directed by Julio Salinas, with Tonino Accolla, Massimo Fedele, Franco Meroni, Piera Caretto...
Teatro il Labirinto, Rome, 1974 (sets and costumes).

Fosca - by U. Tarchetti, directed by Gianfranco Varetto, with Gianfranco Varetto, Georgia 'O Brian, Patrizia Sacchi...
Galleria Teatro Attico, Rome, 1975 (sets and costumes).

Femminilità - by P. e L. Poli, directed by Paolo Poli, with Paolo Poli, Lucia Poli, Jole Silvani, Graziella Porta, Stefano Gragnani...
Teatro Ennio Flaiano, Rome, 1975 (sets and costumes).

E... con... Balzac - da M. De Balzac, directed by Lucia Poli, with Lucia Poli, Donato Sannini, Luciano Bartoli...
Teatro Alberico, Rome, 1976 (sets).

Caligola - by A. Valdarnini, directed by Aldo Trionfo, with Lorenza Guerrieri, Aldo Reggiani, Osvaldo Ruggieri...
Teatro Morlacchi, Perugia, 1976 (costumes).

Povera Gente - by F. Dostoyevsky, directed by Peppino Venetucci, with Liù Bosisio e Pierluigi Aprà.
Teatro Politecnico, Rome, 1977 (sets and costumes).

The Devil and the Good Lord - by J. P. Sartre, directed by Aldo Trionfo, with Bruno Cirino, Roberto Bisacco, Anna T. Rossini, Giancarlo Condè, Stefano Oppedisano...
Teatro Rendano, Cosenza, 1978 (costumes).

Svanevit - by A. Strindberg, directed by Giovanni Lombardo Radice, with Patrizia Terreno, Ugo Margio, Claudia Della Seta...
Teatro La Piramide, Rome, 1979 (sets).

Arlecchino Dirozzato dall'Amore - by P. C. De Marivaux, directed by Giovanni Lombardo Radice, with Saverio Marconi, Marina Garroni...
XXII Festival di Spoleto, 1979 (sets).

I` Morino - by B. Carbocci, directed by Paolo Poli, with Paolo Poli, Marco Messeri, Samuele Cerri...
Teatro Niccolini, Firenze, 1979 (sets and costumes).

Candida - by G.B. Shaw, directed by Peppino Venetucci, with Mila Vannucci, Gianni Garko, Olga Gherardi, Claudio Trionfi...
Teatro Morlacchi, Perugia, 1980 (sets and costumes).

Moon for the Misbegotten - by E. O`Neill, directed by Beppe Menegatti, with Lydia Alfonsi, Luigi Sportelli...
Teatro Verdi, Salerno, 1980 (sets and costumes).

La Gioconda - by G. D'Annunzio, directed by Beppe Menegatti, with Lydia Alfonsi, Osvaldo Ruggieri...
Teatro Vittoriale, Gardone, 1980 (sets and costumes).

The Playboy of the Western World - by J. M. Synge, directed by Franco Branciaroli, with Franco Branciaroli, Lina Sastri, Giancarlo Prati, Gabriella Zamparini, Antonello Fassari, Paolo Baroni...
Teatro Metastasio, Prato, 1981 (sets and costumes).

Non è per Scherzo che ti ho Amato - by D. Fabbri, directed by Peppino Venetucci, with Mila Vannucci, Carlo Hintermann...
Teatro Comunale, Cittadella, 1981 (sets and costumes).

La Ronde - by A. Schnitzler, directed by Gian Maria Volontè, with Carla Gravina, Gian Maria Volontè...
Teatro Eliseo, Rome, 1981 (costumes).

Don Giovanni e il suo Servo - by R. Familiari, directed by Aldo Trionfo, with Giancarlo Zanetti, Andrea Giordana, Luca Roca-Rey...
Teatro Signorelli, Cortona, 1982 (costumes).

Ologame - by L. Lanzarotti, directed by Ugo Gregoretti, with Patrizia De Clara and Gino Lavagetto.
Teatro dell'Orologio, Rome, 1983 (costumes).

The Comedy of Errors - by W. Shakespeare, directed by Augusto Zucchi, with Giancarlo Zanetti, Andrea Giordana, Magda Mercatali, Laura Saraceni...
Teatro Signorelli, Cortona, 1983 (sets and costumes).

Life is a Dream - by Calderon Della Barca, directed by Franco Branciaroli, with Franco Branciaroli, Milena Vukotic, Franco Pugi...
Teatro Porta Romana, Milano, 1985 (sets and costumes).

La Cortigiana - by P. Aretino, directed by Giovanni Lombardo Radice, with Marina Garroni, Saverio Marconi, Michele Renzullo...
Teatro Vaccaj, Tolentino, 1985 (sets).

Pornografia - da un'idea by M. Bolognini, directed by Claudio Colli, with Clara Colosimo.
Teatro in Trastevere, Rome, 1985 (sets and costumes).

Peer Gynt - by H. Ibsen, directed by Franco Branciaroli, with Franco Branciaroli, Orietta Notari...
Teatro Porta Romana, Milano, 1986 (sets and costumes).

Fiorenza - by T. Mann, directed by Aldo Trionfo, with Arnoldo Foà, Sabrina Capucci, Edoardo Siravo, Virginio Gazzolo, Marco Maltauro, Gianfranco Candia...
Istituto del Dramma Popolare, San Miniato 1986 (costumes).

Measure for Measure - by W. Shakespeare, directed by Jonathan Miller, with Aldo Reggiani, Elisabetta Pozzi, Giulio Brogi, Graziano Giusti...
Teatro Romano, Verona, 1987 (sets and costumes).

The Tool Shed - by G. Greene, directed by Sandro Bolchi, with Regina Bianchi, Mario Maranzana, Carlo Simoni, Margherita Guzzinati...
Istituto del Dramma Popolare, San Miniato, 1987 (sets and costumes).

Gosths - by H. Ibsen, directed by Franco Branciaroli, with Franco Branciaroli, Valentina Fortunato...
Teatro di Porta Romana, Milano, 1987 (sets and costumes).

Sinceramente Bugiardi - by A. Ayckbourn, directed by Giovanni Lombardo Radice, with Paolo Ferrari, Valeria Valeri, Chiara Salerno e Stefano Benassi.
Teatro Vaccaj, Tolentino, 1988 (sets and costumes).

The Mountain Giants - by L. Pirandello, directed by Mauro Bolognini, with Irene Papas, Flavio Bucci, Micaela Pignatelli, Giustino Durano...
Teatro Panatenee, Agrigento, 1989 (costumes).

Miseria e Nobiltà - by E. Scarpetta, directed by G. Lombardo Radice, with Carlo Giuffré, Angela Pagano, Rino Marcelli, Anna D'Onofrio...
Benevento città di Spettacolo, Benevento, 1989 (sets and costumes).

Un Magico Decotto di Mandragola - by L. De Filippo, directed by Luigi De Filippo, with L. De Filippo, Rossella Serrato...
Teatro Vaccaj, Tolentino, 1990 (sets and costumes).

The Diary of Anne Frank - by F. Goodrich e A. Hackett, directed by Gianfranco De Bosio, with Micol Pambieri, Lia Tanzi, Giuseppe Pambieri, Dorotea Aslanidis, Luca De Bei...
Teatro Comunale, Narni, 1990 (costumes).

Inner Voices - by Eduardo De Filippo directed by Carlo Giuffré, with Carlo Giuffré, Mario Scarpetta, Linda Moretti, Teresa Del Vecchio...
Teatro Diana, Napoli, 1991 (sets and costumes).

L'Amico di Papà - by Eduardo Scarpetta, directed by Luigi De Filippo, with Luigi De Filippo, Rino Marcelli, Anna D'Onofrio...
Teatro Comunale, Latina, 1992 (sets and costumes).

Il Berretto a Sonagli - by L. Pirandello directed by Mauro Bolognini, with Paola Borboni, Sebastiano Lomonaco, Cristina Noci, Giustino Durano...
Teatro Pirandelliano, Agrigento, 1992 (costumes).

Death of a Salesman - by A. Miller, directed by Enrico Maria Salerno, with E.M. Salerno, Benedetta Buccellato, Stefano Benassi, Fabio Cavalli...
Teatro Pergolesi, Jesi, 1993 (costumes).

The Government Inspector - by N. Gogol, directed by Marco Sciaccaluga, with Franco Branciaroli, Tatiana Winterler, Valerio Binasco, Anna Stante...
Teatro Coccia, Novara, 1993 (sets and costumes).

Il Ferro - by Gabriele D'Annunzio, directed by Aurelio Pierucci, with Gianna Giachetti, Mario Granato, Pia Lanciotti, Fabio Balasso...
Rassegna D'Annunziana, Castel di Poggio, 1994 (sets and costumes).

Twelfth Night - by W. Shakespeare, Directed by Franco Branciaroli, with Rita Pavone, Renzo Montagnani, Marco Sciaccaluga, Pino Micol, Franco Branciaroli, Anna Stante...
Teatro Romano, Verona, 1995 (sets and costumes).


The Fisher King - by Julien Gracq, Directed bly Krzysztof Zanussi, with Giulio Brogi, Vincenzo Bocciarelli, Riccardo Garrone, Ludovica Tinghi, Piero Caretto...
Istituto del Dramma Popolare, San Miniato, 1996 (sets and costumes).

Non ti pago - by Eduardo de Filippo, Directed by Carlo Giuffrè, with Carlo Giuffrè, Antonella Morea, Anna D'Onofrio, Teresa del Vecchio, Aldo de Martino, Piero Pepe.
Teatro Masini, Faenza, 1996 (sets and costumes).

La locandiera -by Carlo Goldoni - direct Maurizioi Panici, with Pamela Villoresi, Massimo Wertmuller, Renato Scarpa, Manrico Gammarota, Alessandra Costanzo, Maria Teresa Pintus, Massimiliano Allocco, Sandro Querci.
Téatre Du Rond-Point, Paris 2000 (sets and costumes).

Three Sisters - by Anton Cechov - direct Maurizio Panici, with Fabio Bussotti, Antonella Attili, Valeria Ciangottini, Pamela Villoresi, Silvia Budri, Maurizio Panici, Manrico Gammarota, Sergio Basile, Sandro Querci, Renato Campese, Giorgio Barlotti, Lucia Ricalzone.
Teatro Curci di Barletta , 2003 (sets and costumes).

Non ti Pago - by Eduardo De Filippo - direct Luigi De Filippo, wuith Luigi De Filikppo, Luisa Esposito, Maria Lauria, Paolo Pietrantonio, Roberto Albin, Salvatore Felaco, Luca Negroni, Annamaria Senatore, Ernesto Mignano, Eliana Lamberti, Rita Mussomeli.
Teatro Romano di Benevento- 2004 (sets and costumes).

Il Medico dei Pazzi - by Edoardo Scarpetta - direct Carlo Giuffrè, with Carlo Giuffré, Piero Pepe, Monica Assante Di Tatisso, Rino Di Maio, Antonella Lori, Aldo De Martino.
Teatro Diana di Napoli , 2004 (sets ).

The Phantom of Opera - by Gaston Leroux - misic Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Gounod, Prokofiev and Sasà Flauto - special effects Luis Siciliano - direct and coreography André De Laroche, with Giorgio Carli, Alexandra Alisè, Simone Sibillano, Concetta Ascrizzi, Gianluca Paganelli, Adonai Mamo.
Teatro Verdi di Salerno, 2004 (sets).


OPERA


Aida - by G. Verdi, directed by Mauro Bolognini, conductor Sinopoli, with Carlo Del Bosco, Bruna Baglioni, Maria Parazzini, Carlo Bergonzi, Giancarlo Luccardi...
Teatro La Fenice, Venezia, 1978 (costumes).

Rigoletto - by G. Verdi, directed by Beppe Mengatti, conductor M. Wolf Ferrari, with Giancarlo Pastine, Franco Bordoni, Renata Baldisseri, Carlo Cava, Vally Salio...
Teatro G. Da Palestrina, Cagliari, 1979 (sets and costumes).

La Cenerentola - by G. Rossini, directed by Giovanni Lombardo Radice, conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti, with Anna Managaki, Andreas Coulumbis, Gary Bennet...
Cantiere d'Arte, Montepulciano, 1980 (sets and costumes) .

La Sonnambula - by G. Bellini, directed by Beppe Menegatti, conductor Bruno Martinotti, with Mario Rinaudo, Anna Maria Rota, Luciana Serra, Antonio Savastano, Adelina Scarabelli...
Teatro Politeama, Palermo, 1981 (sets and costumes)

Vivi` - by F. Mannino, directed by Beppe Menegatti, conductor Franco Mannino, with Elena Mauti Nunziata, Valeria Mariconda, Anna Di Stasio, Angelo Romero, Guido Mazzini, Angelo Casertano...
Teatro San Carlo, Napoli, 1981 (costumes).

Norma - by V. Bellini, directed by Beppe Menegatti, conductor O. De Fabritiis, with Montserrat Caballè, Giuseppe Giacomini, Fiorenza Cossotto, Ivo Vinco...
Teatro Sferisterio, Macerata, 1982 (sets and costumes).

Il Turco in Italia - by G, Rossini, directed by Aldo Trionfo, conductor Marcello Panni, with Simone Alaimo, Gladys Mayo, Silvano Pagliuca, Mario Bolognesi...
Teatro dell'opera, Rome, 1982 (sets and costumes).

Tosca - by G. Puccini, directed by Mauro Bolognini, conductor Pinchass Teimberg, with Sylvia Sass, Giuseppe Giacomini, Giampiero Mastromei, Alfredo Mariotti...
Teatro delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, 1983 (costumes).

Rigoletto - by G. Verdi, directed by Mauro Bolognini, conductor John Mauceri, with John Rawnsley, Cecilia Gasdia, Lando Bartolini, Carlo Bosi, Stella Silva ...
Teatro Sferisterio, Macerata, 1985 (costumes).

La Bohème - by G. Puccini, directed by Mauro Bolognini, with Alberto Cupido, Luigi De Corato, Roberto Coviello, Cecilia Gasdia, Margherita Guglielmi...
Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari,1987 (costumes).


BALLET:

Carmen - by Bizet, adapted by F. Busoni, coreography by Tomàs, with Cristina Bozzolini and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ballet,
Giornate Busoniane di Empoli, Empoli, 1979 (costumes).

La Famiglia Almaviva da Le Nozze di Figaro - by Mozart e Il Barbiere di Siviglia - by G. Rossini, coreogrphy by Loris Gai and Gabriel Popescu, with Carla Fracci and Gheorghe Iancu...
Festival Internazionale di Marlia, Marlia, 1982 (sets and costumes).

Volti - La Pavana, by G. Fauré, coreography by Eugène Poljakov, with Margherita Parrilla and Vlastimil Harapes...
Estate Romana, Rome1984 (sets and costumes).

Lungo Viaggio nella Notte di Natale - by Beppe Menegatti and Aldo Nicastro - coreography by Paul Chalmer - music by Tchaikovsky and Stravinskij - music director Marcello Rota - with Vladimir Vassiliev , Riccardo Di Cosmo, Gaia Straccamore, Mario Marozzi, Laura Comi, Stefania Minardo, Alessandra Capozzi, Guido Pistoni, Alioscia Massine…
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, 2000 (sets and costumes).

Sleeping Beauty - ballet in three acts with prologue and apotheosis on fairy tales by Charles Perrault - music by Piotor Tchaikovsky - libretto by Svevolozsky and Marius Petipa - coreography by Paul Chelmer from Marius Pepipa - music director Edoardo Florio - with Lisa Maree Cullum, Svetlana Zakharova, Laura Comi, Gaia Straccamore, Roberto Bolle, Tomas Nagy, Igor Kolb, Nelson Madrigal, Carla Fracci, Stefania Minardo, Riccardo Di Cosmo, Alessia Barberini….
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, 2002, (sets and costumes).

Swan Lake - ballet in four acts and prologue by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov - musc Piotor Ilyich Tchaikovsky - coreography by Galina Samsova from Petipa- music director Lev Shabanov - with Svetlana Zakharova, Laura Comi, Gaia Straccamore, Eugeny Ivachenko, Mario Marozzi, Igor Yebra, Carla Fracci …
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, 2003 (sets and costumes).


CINEMA:

Vizi Privati e Pubbliche Virtù - directed by Miklos Jancso, with Lajos Balazsovits, Pamela Villoresi, Franco Branciaroli, Therése Ann Savoy, Laura Betti...
Films Rome Production (Italy), Jadran Film Zagabria (Jugoslavia), 1975 (costumes).

Difficile Morire - Directed by Umberto Silva, with Marc Porel, Barbara Magnolfi, Gerardo Amato, Laura D'Angelo, Giuliana Calandra...
CineLef Rome Production - Italnoleggio, 1977 (costumes).

La Venexiana - directed by Mauro Bolognini, with Laura Antonelli, Jason Connery, Monica Guerritore, Claudio Amendola, Cristina Noci, Stefano Davanzati...
Lux International S.R.L. Production - Titanus, Italy, 1986 (costumes).

Il Piccolo Diavolo - directed by Roberto Benigni, with Roberto Benigni, Walter Matthau, Nicoletta Braschi, Stefania Sandrelli, Franco Fabrizi...
Yarno Cinematografica Rome Production - Cecchi Gori Group, Italy, 1987 (costumes).

La Maschera - directed by Fiorella Infdirectedascelli, with Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Maloney, Roberto Herlitzka, Alberto Cracco, M. De Marchi...
Istituto Luce - RAI 2 Production - Best International Film, Italy, 1988 (costumes).

Zuppa di Pesce - directed by Fiorella Infascelli, with Philippe Noiret, Chiara Caselli, Macha Meril, Andrea Prodan, Renzo Montagnani, Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere, Lou Castel, Memè Perlini, Mariella Logiudice...
Leader Cinematografica Production - RAI 2 - Istituto Luce - Italy, 1991 (costumes).

La Seconda Moglie - directed by Ugo Chiti, with Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Lazar Ristovski, Giorgio Noè, Patrizia Corti, Stefano Abbati, Franca Tamantini, Vincenzo Versari…
Tiger Cinematografica - Cecchi Gori Group Production - Italy, 1997 (costumes).

Lucignolo - directed by Massimo Ceccherini, with Claudia Gerini, Massimo Ceccherini, Alessandro Paci, Carlo Monni, Flavio Bucci, Tinto Brass…
Cecchi Gori Group Production - Italy 1998 (costumes).

Andata e Ritorno - directed by Alessandro Paci, with Alessandro Paci, Flavia Vento, Carlo Monni, Erika Bernardi, Andrea Cambi, Bobo Rondelli, Marco Giallini, Giustino Durano…
Cecchi Gori Group Production - Italy 2001 (sets and costumes).


TELEVISION:

Un Treno per Malibù - directed by Vincenzo Gamna e Guido Vergani, with Wanda Osiris, Elena Giusti, Lauretta Masiero, Isa Barzizza, Marisa Merlini, Fausta Rotelli, Clelia Matania, Mara Landi, Mariuccia Frustaci e Clara Algranti.
Video sera - RAI 2 Production, 1977 (sets and costumes).

Il Piccolo Archimede - directed by Gianni Amelio, with John Steiner, Laura Betti, Aldo Salvi, Graziano Giusti...
RAI 1 Production, 1979 (costumes).

Un Nome Una Donna: Anna Fougez - directed by Achille Millo e Paolo Fondato, with Marina Pagano, Rino Marcelli, Franco Pugi, Massimo Dapporto, Leo Pantaleo, Giulio Farnese...
RAI 2 Production, 1980 (sets and costumes).

The Charterhouse of Parma - directed by Mauro Bolognini, with Andrea Occhipinti, Marthe Keller, Gian Maria Volontè, Lucia Bosè, Ottavia Piccolo, George Wilson, Laura Betti, Renato Scarpa, Pascale Reynaud, Nelly Borgeaud, Heiner Lauterbach...
Polytel for RAI 1 Production (Italy), with Tele München I.T.F. (Germany), Production for Z.D.F. (Germany), FR 3 (France) and VARA, 1982 (costumes).

Gli Indifferenti - directed by Mauro Bolognini, with Liv Ulmann, Peter Fonda, Laura Antonelli, Chris Campion, Sophie Ward...
Lux Produzioni Production - Titanus, for la rete Italia, 1988 (costumes).

Vaghe Sembianze - della serie Colpo di Fulmine - directed by Mauro Bolognini, with Jenny Seagrove, Vanni Corbellini, Clara Colosimo...
Racing Pictures Production, for la Rete Italia, 1989 (costumes).

The Mountain of Diamonds - directed by Jeannot Szwarc, with Isabelle Gelinas, John Savage, Marina Vlady, Derek De Lint, Ernest Borgnine, Jean Pierre Cassel, Lorenzo Flaherty, Frank Finlay, Russell Case, Andrea Prodan, Jason Connery...
Laser Film Production - Titanus, per Canale 5 (Italy), Antenne Deux (France), 1990 (costumes).

The Ricordi Saga - directed by Mauro Bolognini, with Angela Molina, Luca Barbareschi, Anna Kanakis, Kim Rossi Stuart, Laura Morante, Mariano Rigillo, Adriana Asti, Lino Capolicchio, Domiziana Giordano, Massimo Ghini, Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere, Alessandro Gassman, Alain Cuny, Edoardo Siravo, Riccardo Peroni...
Junior Film for RAI 1 (Italy), Antenne 2 (France), Z.D.F. (Germany), T.V.E. (Spain), e Channel 4 (U.K.) Production, 1993 (costumes).

 

 

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