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Creative Director · Narrative Designer

Pathétique Melodramma

Is an original four-act opera structured around the complete and unaltered performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique". The original libretto, written by Gianluca Giadima, is registered with SIAE — Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori — since 27 December 2017.​

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Call for Composition
Act IV Requiem-
Ex Tenebris Vita

Opening: 01 September 2026 — €24.000

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About

Gianluca Giadima (Naples, 1974) is a Narrative Director.

He takes a theme, explores it to its core, and turns it into experience — whether that's a campaign, an event for Rolex, an opera built on Tchaikovsky, or a card game tied to the America's Cup. The format changes. The craft never does.

His practice is rooted in a dramaturgical approach where structure, music and visual language converge into a single, indivisible work. His artistic research explores the metaphysical dimension of human experience — love, power, destiny, transcendence — through opera and large-scale dramatic forms.

His current project, Pathetique Melodramma, is a four-act opera built upon Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique", culminating in a newly commissioned Requiem.

Over twenty years, he has shaped the narrative and visual identity of Vogue, Rolex and Piaget — applying the same dramaturgical rigour to brand experience as to opera: precise in structure, exact in visual language, always oriented toward audience experience.​

In luxury and international brands, Executive Creative Director. In cinema, Writer-Director. In opera, Opera Creator and Dramaturg. Three formats, one craft.​

BAFF Best Screenplay winner · Cultura Crea 2.0 — INVITALIA / Ministry of Culture.

Creative Director — Narrative Designer

gianluca@giadima.it 

(+39) 347.8195967​

I create works where music and dramatic narrative meet 

the metaphysical dimension of human experience.

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→ For institutional inquiries: gianluca@giadima.it

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