Photographer Barbara Luisi’s latest exhibition AKT – Ageless Beauty in Tokyo celebrates the naked bodies of the over-80s, which makes for a striking companion piece to her black and white collection of 1000-year-old olive trees. Olive trees which have lived for more than 1000 years fully bear fruit. Likewise, there are many people who have […]
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Interview with Fabio Luisi, the Florence Opera’s new Musical Director
Fabio Luisi is the new music director of Florence’s Opera di Firenze and its spring festival, known as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Zubin Mehta, who has been chief conductor of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino since 1985, will stay on as principal conductor emeritus. Luisi is currently the principal conductor at the Metropolitan Opera […]
Photographer Barbara Luisi brings the mystique of Puglia’s olive trees to New York
Twelve black and white photos of trees might not grab your attention immediately, though if I add that they are millennium-old olive trees from Puglia, presented as large-format prints exhibited in the ISAIA Showroom in Madison Avenue as seen through the perceptive and sensual lens of Barbara Luisi, you’ll certainly want to take a look. Art critic […]
Barbara Luisi: Photographing the Night and the Nude
Barbara Luisi was the first photographer to be featured on gramilano, and as the years pass we love her work more and more. Other photographers to be found here work as dance photographers being that dance, opera and classical music are the main focus of this blog. Yet Luisi doesn’t take photographs of dancers, and […]
Fabio Luisi answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Conductors’ Edition
Q&A When did you start playing an instrument? When I was three and a half years old. Why did you start playing? My parents sent me to piano lessons, for me it was more like a game. Which musicians inspired you most when you were young? My teacher, Lili Chiesa, who was violinist in the […]
Get on your running shoes to catch up with Fabio Luisi
Fabio Luisi’s a busy man. The 2013-2014 season finds him conducting operas at Zurich, the Met and La Scala, as well as giving countless concerts throughout the world. In his second season as General Music Director of the Zurich Opera, Luisi premieres new productions of Fidelio and Aida, with revivals of La straniera, Les contes d’Hoffmann, and Don Carlo with René […]
Photographer Barbara Luisi astounds in Water and Dreams
Montauk, Nuit Sur La Mer ©2012 by Barbara Luisi This blog doesn’t hide the fact that it is a fan of Barbara Luisi’s work. Her photos are strong and intensely personal. In the Jumieges Abbey in France an important exhibition called l’Eau et les Rêves (Water and Dreams) is underway, and includes photography by distinguished artists such […]
Barbara Luisi’s exhibition of ‘Glowing Night, Artificial Lights’ photography goes on display in New York
Photographer Barbara Luisi has a good Italian name, though she’s German and largely lives in New York. The ‘Luisi’ surname comes from her husband, Fabio, who is the Principal Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, which explains why she now spends a good amount of time in the Big Apple. However, she also has a home […]
Behind every great woman is a great man: the man being conductor Fabio Luisi and the woman his photographer wife Barbara
Barbara Luisi was, no is, a violinist, but her passion for photography has taken over and her hobby has become her major activity. Though she begun studying the violin at 9 in her home town, Munich, she also started photography at a relatively young age, experimenting with her first Leica at 17. Luisi worked with orchestras such as the […]
Fabio Luisi’s moving house – but will Jimmy Levine be moving out?
Fabio Luisi is moving to New York. He and his wife, Barbara Luisi, a former violinist and now a photographer, and their 13-year-old son are moving to New York in May, to an apartment on West 96th Street. Luisi has reduced his schedule at the Vienna Symphony and declined to extend his contract as chief […]
