Marco Filibeck


Marco Filibeck is an Italian lighting designer.

Biography

His father was the painter Gilberto Filibeck. Marco starts his career as lighting consolle operator, working on over two hundred live concert for Vasco Rossi between 1979 and 1984. He collaborates with different artists from the Italian music scene, like Enzo Jannacci and Loredana Bertè.
In 1983, Filibeck obtains a qualification as light technician at Bologna's Teatro Comunale. Two years later he's hired at Teatro alla Scala in Milan. From 1996, Filibeck is lighting designer at Teatro alla Scala and in 2009 he's appointed as Resident Lighting Designer and Lighting manager, working in this role until 2022.
During his career Filibeck has worked with the most important Italian and foreign directors, such as Franco Zeffirelli, Luca Ronconi, Liliana Cavani, Gabriele Salvatores, Àlex Ollé.
Marco Filibeck designed, starting from 2008, the lights for Roberto Bolle & Friends ballet, a recurring production hosted in the major Italian archeological sites and squares, like Colosseum in Rome, Valle dei Templi in Agrigento, piazza del Duomo in Milan, Arena di Verona and Piazza San Marco in Venice.
In 2018, he received the Franco Abbiati award for the light of the opera Hänsel und Gretel.
In 2023, it is published Marco Filibeck - Lighting Designer, a monography book about Filibeck's career.
In 2025, he won the LUCE Career Award issued by AIDI, the Italian Association for Lighting.

Works

Opera

Teatro alla Scala

2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
  • A riveder le stelle..., by Davide Livermore, Giò Forma, D-Wok
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025

Other opera productions

1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2015
2016
2017
2019
2021
  • Carmen, by Alex Ollè and Alfons Flores
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026

Ballet

Teatro alla Scala

2000
2005
2006
  • Vanitas, by Fabrizio Monteverde
2010
2011
2012
2014
2015
  • Excelsior, by Ugo Dell'Ara and Filippo Crivelli
2016
  • Il giardino degli amanti, by Roberto Bolle, Massimiliano Volpini and Erika Carretta
2018
2019
2023
2024

Other ballet productions

2007
2008
2010
2011
2016
2018

Teather

2014
2024
  • Oliva Denaro, by Giorgio Gallione

Fashion

2012 - 2019

Awards

  • 2018 - Premio Franco Abbiati - Hänsel und Gretel, directed by Sven-Eric Bechtolf
  • 2025 - LUCE Career Award