Santo Loquasto

Santo Loquasto

From: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. LA Opera: scenic designer for Il Tabarro and Suor Angelica (2008); scenic and costumer designer for Gianni Schicchi (2008, 2015); scenic designer for The Marriage of Figaro (2023).

Santo Loquasto is widely known as a designer for theater, film, opera and dance. He has won both Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his set design of Cafe Crown in 1989 and for his costume designs for The Cherry Orchard in 1977 and Grand Hotel in 1990, as well as a Tony Award for costume designs for Hello, Dolly! in 2017. He received a Drama Desk Award for his set design for Glengarry Glen Ross in 2005. He has earned 22 Tony nominations to date. He has worked with Woody Allen on over 30 films and his costume designs for Allen’s Zelig and production designs for Radio Days and Bullets Over Broadway received Academy Award nominations. He has worked with most major international dance companies. His designs for the Metropolitan Opera include Luisa Miller, A View from the Bridge, Salome and Faust. In 2004, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.