Franco Marri, lighting designer, was born in Italy. He designed the lighting for some prestigious set designers and directors, such as Luca Ronconi, Lina Wertmuller, Filippo Crivelli, Alberto Fassini, Pierluigi Pieralli, Dario Fo, Hugo de Ana and Stefano Vizioli. He has designed lighting for many opera including Tancredi, Il barbiere di Siviglia, L'Italiana in Algeri, Semiramide (Rossini), Don Pasquale, L'elisir d'amore (Donizetti), Madama Butterfly (Puccini), I Lombardi, Falstaff, Il trovatore, Nabucco, Oberto, Don Carlo, I Masnadieri, Rigoletto (Verdi), Il matrimonio segreto (Cimarosa), Norma (Bellini), Carmen (Bizet) and many others in opera houses in Italy and all over Europe. This is his first work for the Israeli Opera.