page_title: Lorenzo Mariani
section_title: Harvard
hierarchical_section_title: Lorenzo Mariani / Harvard
caption_attribution_description: English: Harvard Yard winter 2009.
context_page_description: Lorenzo Mariani is a stage director of opera in Italy, the United States, Israel, Finland, and across the world. From 2005 to 2012 Mariani has been artistic director of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. The Teatro Massimo is the largest theatre in Italy.
context_section_description: Mariani demonstrated several talents before and during his Harvard years. While still at Taft, he performed a striking piano recital of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. 
  As an undergraduate, he was recognized for his theatrical performance in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts. He also directed the Loeb Mainstage production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida.
  Together with Sarah McClusky and several other undergraduates, Mariani spent a summer running an experimental theater at Harvard's Loeb Drama Center. A first for the Loeb, the "Loeb Ex" was run like an off-Broadway theater. Mariani, McClusky and the students did all of the technical and business work, from building sets to collecting tickets. The Loeb Ex was not merely "successful." It showed the viability of a year-round theatrical institution at Harvard, and laid the foundation for what ultimately became the Harvard American Repertory Theatre.
  While still at Harvard, Mariani published film reviews in the Harvard Crimson, and articles about Italian politics.
  He was also known for his love and knowledge of opera, and published incisive analyses of singers such as José Carreras, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Plácido Domingo, Enrico Caruso, Fancesco Tamagno, Fischer-Dieskau, and Luciano Pavarotti.
caption:  Harvard Yard in the winter
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