During the 2025-26 season at HGO, Marcello Lumaca makes his company debut as the co-lighting designer for Messiah. Lumaca works internationally as a lighting designer in theater, performance, and installation. For more than 20 years, he has been working continuously with Robert Wilson, in joint productions such as The Temptation of St. Anthony; Persephone; Lady from the Sea; Old Woman; Letter to a Man; Garrincha – a street opera; Edda; Turandot; Otello; Pessoa—Since I’ve been me; H — 100sec to Midnight; Dorian; and Moby Dick at the Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf. Lumaca also regularly collaborates with British film director and experimental artist Peter Greenaway. He created lighting for installations and performances The Blue Planet, Children of Uranus, Leonardo's Last Supper, The Marriage, and Rembrandt's J’Accuse. He collaborated with director Peter Stein for productions of Penthesilea and Medea, which are shown internationally. Lumaca created the lighting concept for Italian architect Italo Rota's C25 Option of Luxury exhibition and worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company on the premiere of Derek Walcott's The Odyssey. In 2016, Lumaca was responsible for the fashion event "Looking for Marni" and has continued to collaborate with the Italian fashion house ever since. He collaborated with the architects and designers of the famous CQS studio in 2016 and 2017 during Milan Design Week.