Giacomo Agosti studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He has been teaching Visual Culture and Performing Arts at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milano since 1989. During the years he has worked with artists in emotional and sensorial terms. His main focus fell upon three main themes: American music, stereoscopic vision (historical 3d), and Italian movies color. He presented sound installations, based on lyrical operas (repertoire and not), at Museo del 900, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Museo Nazionale in Naples, and on Comacina Island (Lake of Como). In 2013, he stage-directed the first modern revival of Nicolas Dalayrac’s Les Deux Petits Savoyards, with the Milano Classica Orchestra conducted by Gianluca Capuano. In 2003, he founded the Association Il Nuovo Mondo, which promotes the music of the 20th century as well as exchanges with Chinese artists from overseas. He contributes to the website <artecrit.com>. He is currently completing a book titled L’Isola delle sirene. Cultura omosessuale e musical americano da Busby Berkeley a Betty Grable(Ricordi-LIM, “Le Sfere” series, forthcoming).
