Lili Elbe
Costume designer Marco Piemontese ably provided attire ranging from simple Danish period dress to medical laboratory garb to elegant Parisian haute couture. He was wholly successful in flattering Ms. Lucas throughout Lili’s transformation.
OPERA TODAY
Aug 12th 2026
"Marco Piemontese’s striking period costumes conjured the artists’ milieu"
WSJ
Aug 10th 2026
“Marco Piemontese’s sumptuous costumes celebrating fashion and self-invention"
MUSICAL AMERICA WORLDWIDE
Aug 10th 2026
Marco Piemontese (in his SFO debut) does particularly well capturing its Parisian moments
SANTA FE REPORTER
Aug 5th 2026
Galileo Galilei
“Even in a season full of striking costumes at OTSL…Marco Piemontese’s for “Galileo Galilei” stood out. Paul Groves’ Older Galileo first appeared in a handsome winged doublet, black velvet with a burnt gold sun embroidered on the back. Sean Plumb’s Younger Galileo wore an Arabian green robe resembling academic regalia. Vanessa Becerra received perhaps the loveliest nun’s habit in history, white, but imprinted with black silhouettes of rising butterflies. Elijah English, Jared Werlein, and Robert Mellon, the three Cardinals cross-examining Galileo, combined in a triptych of cardinal vestments decorated with a single Christian cross spanning their bodies, slanted at a menacing angle. They wore comically tiny sunglasses indoors, emphasizing their lack of imaginative vision. We haven’t space in this review to detail costumes in the meta-opera; suffice it to call it a high Baroque fashion show. Production stills from Portland make clear that OTSL’s staging far exceeded Portland Opera’s in scope, even on the modest thrust stage of the Loreto-Hilton Center.”
OPERAWIRE,
Aug 11th 2024
“Marco Piemontese’s sumptuous period costumes”
WSJ
June 24th 2024
“Costumes are by Marco Piemontese, a true master”
BROADWAYWORLD,
June 17th 2024
“Marco Piemontese has designed an array of lavish costumes that are not only stunningly attractive, but which also immediately established and defined the characters”
OPERA TODAY
June 20th 2024
“The sky and stars in the heavens are contrasted by brightly colored vestments and other outfits from costumer Marco Piemontese, whose color palette matches the atmosphere of various scenes. His creations for Galileo Galilei are the best costumes of the season”
REVIEWSTL
June 22nd 2024
Rigoletto
"The near-total absence of color in Marco Piemontese’s costumes—with the exceptions of the red in Monterone’s attire and the petticoat Gilda reveals after being seduced by the Duke—underscores the wrongs inflicted upon these two characters by a frivolous libertine, whose psychological makeup is, in truth, quite elementary. The outrage perpetrated by this man—described as “youthful, lighthearted, so powerful, and handsome”—inflicts a far deeper wound; it is precisely for this reason that Rigoletto dons a mask and participates in the amorality of court life, as if attempting to shield both himself and his daughter from the dangers of such a toxic environment."
OPERA CLICK
Nov 10th 2026
"The gorgeous costumes by Marco Piemontese create hues of blue and black with the only exception of Gilda gowned in white, the only character untouched by the decadence and who only at the end Let us discover an underskirt made by poisoned red flowers, symbol of defloration and despair”
ANSA.IT
Oct 15th 2018
Semiramide
“The people were in white costumes and turbans, the priests in black, and Semiramide in an elegant black and white gown with golden accents”
BACKTRACK.COM
Oct 23rd 2018
The Turn of the Screw
Remakably beautiful are the costumes by Marco Piemontese and a special note for the gothic look of Miss Jessel which stands out for his dark lady humour
FIRENZEPOST
Apr 28th 2015
The Forest
“Ms. Wiest looks elegant in the beautifully made dresses by Marco Piemontese”
NEWV YORK TIMES
May 7th 2010
“Wiest, handsomely dressed by costume designer Marco Piemontese”
CURTNAINUP.COM
May 5th 2010
“Wiest does wear a few kick-ass gowns, designed by Marco Piemontese”
SLANTMAGAZINE
May 6th 2010
Three Sisters
“Impeccable rendered period costumes by Marco Piemontese”
NEW YORK TIMES
Feb 3rd 2011
“Marco Piemontese’s beautifully rendered costumes help delineate subtle differences in class and social status. Even the military uniforms, at first glance nearly indistinguishable, hint at the relative fortunes “
POLITICO
Febr 3rd 2011
“Marco Piemontese's costumes capture the essential contradiction of late-Victorian ladies' wear, in which modesty vies with a certain sensuality”
LIGHTANDSOUNDAMERICA
Febr 4th 2011
“Marco Piemontese's fine costumes, respects the early 1900s”
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Febr 4th 2011
The Cherry Orchard
“The handsome costumes are by Marco Piemontese”
NEW YORK TIMES
Dec 4th 2011
“There's nothing plain or bare bones about Marco Piemontese's gorgeous, personality defining costumes. When Ranevskaya and her entourage first appear they look as if they'd just steppd out of the famous Ascot scene in My Fair Lady”
CURTAINUP.COM
Dec 6th 2011
Ivanov
“Marco Piemontese did the spot-on period costumes”
NEW YORK TIMES
Nov 11th 2012
The Master Builder
“Borowitz is wearing costumer Marco Piemontese’s beautiful floor-lenght dresses”
HUFFINGTON POST
May 22nd 2013