New York Opera WOMEN: THE WAR WITHIN Sets Stage for Italian Actor Gianlorenzo Albertini's Rise to Stardom
Actor Gianlorenzo Albertini caught the eye of director Paul Warner while studying at the acclaimed New York Film Academy. Warner, a teacher at the Academy and a resident artist at the famed Baryshnikov Arts Center was the director of a new multi-disciplinary dance theater-opera, Women: The War Within. Warner brought Gianlorenzo Albertini in for an audition, which is when he the actor met Obie Award-winning librettist and the show's producer Matthew Maguire, who later cast the actor as a Warrior.