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
The Forest
“Ms. Wiest looks elegant in the beautifully made dresses by Marco Piemontese”
New York Times, May 7 2010
“Wiest, handsomely dressed by costume designer Marco Piemontese”
Curtainup.com, May 5 2010
“Wiest does wear a few kick-ass gowns, designed by Marco Piemontese”
Slantmagazine, May 6 2010
Three Sisters
“Impeccable rendered period costumes by Marco Piemontese”
New York Times, February 3 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.com, Febr 3 2011
“Marco Piemontese's costumes capture the essential contradiction of late-Victorian ladies' wear, in which modesty vies with a certain sensuality”
Lightandsoundamerica.com, Febr 4 2011
“Marco Piemontese's fine costumes, respects the early 1900s”
New York Daily News, Febr 4 2011
The Cherry Orchard
“The handsome costumes are by Marco Piemontese”
New York Times, Dec 4 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 6 2011
Ivanov
“Marco Piemontese did the spot-on period costumes”
New York Times, Nov 11 2012
The Master Builder
“Borowitz is wearing costumer Marco Piemontese’s beautiful floor-lenght dresses”
Huffington Post, May 22 2013
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”
Bachtrack.com, Oct 23 2018
“Marco Piemontese designs the elegant refined costumes which perfectly match the idea of luxury and grace surronding the stage”
MTG Lirica, Oct 20 2018
“Impossible not to mention the stunning costumes designed for Semiramide and Idreno which center perfectly the target of any Costume Designer: to make a singer or an actor look at its best understanding their flaws”
Theblogartpost.it, Oct 29 2018
“Marco Piemontese designed the very elegant and sober costumes”
Teatro.it, Oct 19 2018
Rigoletto
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 15 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
Firenze post, Apr 28 2015