Bob Wilson, acclaimed director, playwright, actor and visual artist, died. Born in Wacho in Texas in 1941 he would have turned 84 in October. A very elegant image in black and white with the ‘Loving Memory 1941-2025’ writing on its website announces the news. “Wilson has always understood theater as a total work of art, taking care of every detail of the shows he signed, but the impact of his work extends to other arts and all the fields of creativity”, the Teatro alla Scala recalls him.
Bob Wilson was a “cardinal figure of contemporary culture”. So the Teatro alla Scala with which the director, scenographer, actor, playwright and artist recalled it had had a long collaboration from 20 October 1979 at the National Theater with the Edison ballet on music by Michael Riesman and the production of Salome from 1987 at Piermarini with the costumes of Gianni Versace, the link continued until April 7 when he edited the show “The Night Before. Objects Chairs Opera »for the inauguration evening at Piermarini of the 63 edition of the Salone del Mobile with Marina Rebeka and the Orchestra della Scala directed by Michele Spotti. In the middle, his arrangements of the return of Ulysses at home, of the Orpheus and the coronation of Poppea, a trilogy dedicated to Monteverdi staged between 2011 and 2015. “Complete artist, director and scenographer of prose and work, Wilson has always understood the theater as a total work of art by taking care of every detail of the shows he signed, but the impact of his work extends to the other arts and all the fields of creativity” In a note the scale adding that “all the workers of the theater come together in memory, together with the superintendent Fortunato Ortombina and the musical director Riccardo Chailly”.