Discover the Best Books Written by Alberto Oliva

Alberto Oliva (Milan, December 6, 1984) is an Italian theater director, writer and journalist. He directs prose performances in various Milanese and national theaters and operas. After graduating in Science of Cultural Heritage at the State University of Milan with Paolo Bosisio in 2006, he graduated in directing at the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Art in 2009. 

He began his artistic career as assistant director of Andrée Ruth Shammah, Jurij Ferrini, Serena Sinigaglia, Carmelo Rifici, Annig Raimondi, Corrado d'Elia, Massimo Navone. Her first show, The Cigar Seller by Amos Kamil, produced by the Litta Theater, was sold out for five theatrical seasons (from 2010 to 2015) and is also on stage in 2019.

For a few years he collaborated with the Giacosa Theater in Ivrea directed by Paolo Bosisio, where he created the shows Garibaldi, my love by Maurizio Micheli (2010), Il Ventaglio by Goldoni, The Merchant of Venice (2012) and Enrico IV by Luigi Pirandello (2014 )

In 2011, with the actor Mino Manni, he founded the I Demoni Association, with which he created several theatrical performances and the Dostoevsky Project, which culminated in 2017/2018 at the Franco Parenti Theater with the creation of Crime and Punishment and the publication of a collection of six original theatrical adaptations taken from the works of the Russian author, entitled Dostoevsky's Perspective (ed. Cue Press).

Over the years he developed a growing interest in opera, which he approached by winning a competition notice from the Venice Biennale for the creation of an original "pocket opera" entitled Magen Zeit which was successfully staged in the 2014 Venice exhibition. Since 2017 he has directed the opera season of the Teatro Verdi in Busseto in collaboration with the Adads Academy, bringing young singers from all over the world to the stage under the musical direction of Maestro Marco Beretta. In September 2017 he directed Inori di Stockhausen, the opening event of the Venice Music Biennale with the Padua and Veneto Orchestra conducted by Marco Angius. The following year he directed Tosca for OperaInPiazza, an important summer event in the Municipality of Cesate.

As a freelance journalist, he is the creator of the Anime Nascoste project, in collaboration with the newspaper Il Giorno, dedicated to the discovery of independent cultural spaces in Milan. He creates two guides (2015 and 2016) that tell these places and the project of the Widespread Exhibition that puts them online through art.

Since 2016 he has also edited a column on Historical Shops in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan, with which he has created two guides (2017 and 2019) and the Galleria&Friends project with his colleague Elisabetta Invernici, with which he puts the 30 most beautiful historic shops in the center online of Milan in a project of cultural initiatives. In 2019 she curates a photographic exhibition for the Municipality of Milan in via Dante in Milan dedicated to Ancient Crafts.