Caterina Panti Liberovici
Director's Assistant / Director
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Caterina Panti Liberovici studied the clarinet and singing at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire in Turin before joining La Scala Milan as assistant to Luca Ronconi and director. She directed Rossini's L’occasione fa il ladro, Mozart's La finta semplice and Cimarosa's L’impresario in angustie at the Festival Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano, Giovannino Guareschi & Arturo Coppola's La favola di natale at the Teatro Regio in Turin. These were preceded by, amongst others, Simon Boccanegra and La Bohème at the National Serbian Theatre in Novi Sad, Leonardo Leo's L’ambizione delusa and Daniela Terranova's Falene at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca. She also worked at the Stanislawski Theater in Moscow (Sciarrino's Luci mie traditrici), the Schlosstheater in Potsdam (Rossini's La scala di seta), the Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genua and the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. Her first production for Oper Frankfurt, where she has been working as a director's assistant since 2009, was Fioravanti's Le cantatrici villaine, which was followed by Rossini's La gazzetta and this new Don Pasquale in the Bockenheimer Depot, which should have opened during corona shutdown, and was performed at last winter's Festival in Erl. In 2021 this instinctive, Italian, living for theatre creature also directed the world premiere of Zoran Juranić's Opera after Kamov at the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka and Menotti's The Medium at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.