Elena Puliti trained at DAMS in Bologna and at Luca Ronconi‘s Laboratorio di Prato. She soon became a student and later a faithful collaborator of Anna Anni, with whom she worked on many of Franco Zeffirelli‘s productions. Among the most important were the films “Otello” and “Un tè con Mussolini” and operas such as “Don Carlo” at La Scala, “Don Giovanni” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and “Carmen” at the Arena in Verona.
Twenty years of collaboration with director Pierluigi Pier’Alli for whom he designs costumes for such operas as “Lucia di Lammermor,” “Mefistofele,” “Freischutz,” “La sonnambula” at La Scala in Milan, “Fidelio” for the inauguration of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia and toured at the Los Angeles Opera and the Real in Madrid.
Set designer-costumier for Carla Fracci and Beppe Menegatti, it is Elena Puliti who has designed many ballets and original productions mainly at the Rome Opera House and the Piccolo and La Scala in Milan.
At the exhibition level, she has long collaborated with the Costume Gallery of Palazzo Pitti for which she is curator of the exhibition “Anna Anni, from sign to scene.” She was a lecturer of “History of Stage Costume” for the University of Siena for a decade. Currently Elena Puliti is a lecturer at the Franco Zeffirelli Onlus Foundation for the course of Costume for the Performing Arts.