Naples’ Teatro di San Carlo opens its 2026/2027 season on 2 December with Verdi’s “Luisa Miller,” directed by Davide Livermore and conducted by Daniel Oran, according to Il Mattino.
Il Mattino is following preparations for the opening production in a backstage series that begins with the theatre’s sartoria. The journey also takes in the Sala Regia, Sala Coro, Sala Giardini, technical areas and the retropalco, presenting costume-making as one of the many professional activities required to stage an opera.
The sartoria combines inherited manual skill with sewing, costume painting and the transformation of fabrics and accessories. According to an institutional account of the workshop, it is an internationally distinguished costume atelier where craftsmanship works alongside innovation.
That history is preserved in its collection and archive, which holds approximately 6,000 costume sketches and costume-design pieces. The archive includes work associated with designers including Emanuele Luzzati and Odette Nicoletti.
The Teatro’s historical archive was established in 2012 and has been recognised as being of particularly important cultural interest.
