Eugenio Zanetti

Eugenio Zanetti is an award-winning Designer, Theater and Opera Director, as well as an accomplished painter and the writer of two plays. With a multifaceted career that spans almost 30 years and three continents, Mr. Zanetti is internationally recognized as an artist of extraordinary and versatile qualities. Among others, his films include, "What Dreams May Come, " (Academy Award Nominee), "Flatliners, " "Last Action Hero, " "Soapdish, " "Tall Tale, " the Artgentinean films "Camila" and "The Truce" (both Academy Award Nominees), "The Power of Darkness" (Moscow Film Festival Award for Design), "Some Girls" (Toronto Film Festival Design Award), "Medea", "The Passengers of the Garden, " "Restoration" for which he won an Academy Award. More than 40 theater and opera productions in Europe and South America include: "A Masqued Ball" and "Nabucco" by Verdi, "Madame Butterfly" and "Tosca" by Puccini, etc. In a very successful career as Director of Musicals, he has received in Argentina the Thalia Award (equal to the Tony) for his work in "They Are Playing Our Song, " "Chicago, " and "Dracula" as a Director, and the same award as Author for "The White Queen" and the Star of the Sea Award for "The Cherry Orchard, " "Chapter Two, " "Company, " and "Peer Gynt."