Friday, December 3, 2010

Pacific Northwest Ballet's Rico Chiarelli lights the way

Rico Chiarelli, here on the "Coppélia" set, has been working backstage at McCaw Hall (previously the Seattle Center Opera House) since he was a teenager, and learned his trade on stages all over town in the 1960s and '70s. "If there was a designer in town that I was interested in, I would just sneak in and sit behind him and watch him. Go to school."