In addition to being Technical Director of the "Accademia d'Armi Greco Center for Experimental Cinematography, the world's oldest film school. He recently choreographed the great number of duels for "Caravaggio", a film directed by Angelo Longoni with Vittorio Storaro’s cinematography released in 2008, starring Alessio Boni as the doomed painter as well as the movie version of Mozart’s " Io, Don Giovanni" directed by Carlos Saura and Vittorio Storaro’s DoP.", Renzo Musumeci Greco is also the theatrical fencing instructor at Rome's
He has choreographed some of the greatest duels for the Opera theatre:
Teatro Real in Madrid “Il Trovatore” produced by London Covent Garden;Teatro Regio di Parma “Il Trovatore”, "MacbethAt Turin's Teatro Regio, he worked on "Don GiovanniAt Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice "Il Corsaro Opera di Roma “Lucia di Lammermoor”, “Faust” and “Carmen” working with some of the most important directors such as Hugo de Ana and Graham Vick, perfomed by Placido Domingo, Salvatore Licitra, Josè Cura, Leo Nucci, Marcelo Alvarez.";Teatro alla Scala the premieries of “Otello” and “Il Trovatore”, “La forza del destino” and “Lucrezia Borgia”; Teatro Massimo di Palermo “Lohengrin”. ", directed by Michele Placido and "Faust". " directed by Liliana Cavani, "Il Corsaro" and "Simon Boccanegra".
He also worked with the Rome Opera Ballet on a production of "Giulietta e Romeo” directed by Carla Fracci, and in Arena di Verona he made Roberto Bolle “fly” while holding sword.
He has worked a few times at the Arena di Verona for “Il Trovatore” directed by Franco Zeffirelli, show in rebuilding in summer 2010, debut August 7Th.
He has worked for Teatro Stabile del Veneto on the play "La Bottega del caffè", with Luca Ronconi on "I Due Gemelli Veneziani" at Milan's Piccolo, "Francesco il Musical" by Vincenzo Cerami in Assisi, "Hamlet" with Kim Rossi Stuart and Alessandro Preziosi, "Othello" with Michele Placido and "Hollywood" with Massimo Ranieri. Again with “Amleto” directed by Pietro Carriglio and still showing.
He participated in some television productions including "Ritorno al presente" He choreographed duels for television commercials directed by Tony Scott for "Foxy" and L'Antica Gelateria del Corso,. He recently made Massimo Ranieri duel with Margherita Granbassi in the tv show "Tutte donne tranne me" and he is now working with him in theatre show “Chi nun tene curaggio nun se coca cu’e ffemmene bbellle”. He is currently engaged in the preparation of duels for musical kolossal I Promessi Sposi , directed by Michele Guardì debuting in San Siro Stadium on june 18th 2010." (RAI UNO).
He has worked with Luchino Visconti, Peter Stein, Mario Monicelli, Benno Besson, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Vittorio Gassman, Max Von Sydow, as well as many others.
Graduated at the Accademia di Napoli, (the only Italian institution entitled to the degree of Fencing Master) he is carrying on the family tradition. His father, Enzo Musumeci Greco, developed and established the profession of Theatrical Fencing Master in Italy and trained many famous actors including Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Richard Burton, Christopher Plummer, Gina Lollobrigida, Giancarlo Giannini, as well as many others.
Since 1878 Accademia Greco is a gathering place for those with a passion for fencing, fencers from all over the world take advantage of the opportunity to come to the "Accademia Greco" and tread its historic pistes. It is here that the healthy competitive spirit of the youngest students encounters both academic fencing and history. Proof of this is the intense activity of the cultural association "Musumeci-Greco, L'Arma della Cultura .The leading forces of the association are Maestro Renzo Musumeci Greco, literary historian Prof. Vittorio Maria de Bonis and Maestro Dario Spampinato. People from all walks of life have passed through this salle, that has seen three centuries; participants and spectators whose only link is a common interest in this noble art. These have included Marinetti, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Cavallotti, Mussolini, the Roman poet Trilussa, King Umberto of Italy, Achille Campanile and former President of Italy Luigi Einaudi. There were also international and olympic champions, including Aldo Montano, Valentina Vezzali, Giovanna Trillini, Mihai Covaliu, Aida Mohammed, Margherita Granbassi and Andrea Cassarà.; athletes that in recent decades have won the greatest number of medals at the Olympics and partecipated in the " A Fil di Spada - Enzo Musumeci Greco Memorial " ("The Sword's Edge). This annual event took place in Rome between 2005 and 2008 offering fencing and artistic performances beautifully mixed together, enough to be considered the most spectacular Italian fencing event of the year.
Over the past 70 years, it has been at the "Accademia Greco" that some of the world's most famous actors have learned to handle weapons for stage and screen roles, including Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, Gina Lollobrigida, Charlton Heston, Richard Burton, Max Von Sidow, Monica Bellucci, Massimo Ranieri, Kim Rossi Stuart, Alessandro Preziosi and, most recently, Alessio Boni, who playd the title role in the film "Caravaggio", released at the beginning of 2008. Renzo Musumeci Greco has worked with Luchino Visconti, Peter Stein, Monicelli, Patroni Griffi, Vittorio Gassman and Max Von Sidow. It's this unusual mix that makes the Accademia something unique.
In 2005, the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, through the Italian National Library, appointed Maestro Musumeci Greco as one of the curators of a significant exhibit of books, sculpture, paintings and other works of art, arms, film duels, antique artifacts and modern fencing equipment, entitled "The Duel: from its origins to Olympic gold", that was part of "The Sword's Edge" Event, organized by Renzo Musumeci Greco, in memory of his father Enzo.
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