Giuseppe Badiali

Giuseppe Badiali was an Italian painter and scenic designer.

Biography

Best known for his scenography, Badiali also frescoed the ceiling of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, now lost but for designs. Among his scenography, it included work for that theater, including: Semiramide by Rossini and the Carnival 1829–1830; I Capuleti e i Montecchi, La sonnambula and I Puritani, by Bellini; Nabucodonosor, Ernani, Macbeth e Luisa Miller, by Verdi.
For the Teatrino Loup of Bologna, he provided scenery for Elisa delle Alpi by C. Baldini; In Reggio Emilia, for their Teatro Comunale, Dirce by A. Peri, Dianora de' Bardi by E. Priora; in Turin for the Teatro Carignano, Gemma di Vergy by Donizetti; and for the Teatro Regio, Guglielmo Tell by Rossini, Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio by Verdi, Il Templario by O. Nicolai; in Florence for the Teatro Alfieri, Il crociato in Egitto by Giacomo Meyerbeer; in Rome for the Teatro Apollo, Roberto Devereux and Marin Faliero by Donizetti, Medea in Corinto by Selli.
Among his collaborators were S. Fantoni and L. Martinelli.