Editing Luchino Visconti (section)

===Theatre===
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Visconti was also a celebrated theatre and [[opera]] director. During the years 1946 to 1960, he directed many performances of the [[Rina Morelli]]-[[Paolo Stoppa]] Company with actor [[Vittorio Gassman]] as well as many celebrated productions of operas.

Visconti's love of opera is evident in the 1954 ''Senso'', where the beginning of the film shows scenes from the fourth act of ''[[Il trovatore]]'', which were filmed at the [[Teatro La Fenice]] in Venice. Beginning when he directed a production at Milan's [[Teatro alla Scala]] of ''[[La vestale]]'' in December 1954, his career included a famous revival of ''[[La traviata]]'' at [[La Scala]] in 1955 with [[Maria Callas]] and an equally famous ''[[Anna Bolena]]'' (also at La Scala) in 1957 with Callas. A significant 1958 [[Royal Opera House]] (London) production of Verdi's five-act Italian version of ''[[Don Carlos]]'' (with [[Jon Vickers]]) followed, along with a ''[[Macbeth (Verdi)|Macbeth]]'' in [[Spoleto]] in 1958 and a famous black-and-white ''[[Il trovatore]]'' with scenery and costumes by [[Filippo Sanjust]] at the Royal Opera House in 1964. In 1966 Visconti's luscious ''[[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]'' for the [[Vienna State Opera]] conducted by [[Leonard Bernstein]] was critically acclaimed. On the other hand, his austere 1969 ''[[Simon Boccanegra]]'' with the singers clothed in geometrical costumes provoked controversy.