Caterina Panti Liberovici
Director's Assistant / Director
© Barbara Aumüller
Caterina Panti Liberovici staged an existing production of Le nozze di Figaro anew, in a new set which would comply with corona guidelines, in record time at the start of this season. Her first production for Oper Frankfurt was Fioravanti's Le cantatrici villane in 2016, it was followed by Rossini's La gazzetta last season and now we are looking forward to her new Don Pasquale in the Bockenheimer Depot. This instinctive, Italian, living for theatre creature, directed Rossini's L’occasione fa il ladro (2010), Mozart's La finta semplice (2015) and Cimarosa's L’impresario in angustie (2018) at the Festival Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano and Giovannino Guareschi and Arturo Coppoloa's La favola di natale at the Teatro Regio in Turin. Projects earlier in her career included Simon Boccanegra and La Bohème at the National Serbian Theatre in Novi Sad and Leonardo Leo's L’ambizione delusa and Daniela Terranova's Falene at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca. Other engagements have taken her to places including the Stanislavski Theater in Moscow (Salvatore Sciarrino's Luci mie traditrici), the Schlosstheater in Potsdam (Rossini's La scala di seta), the Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. Caterina Panti Liberovici has been working at Oper Frankfurt as a director's assistant and rehearsing reivals since 2009, earlier in her career she worked at La Scala Milan. She won the Hessen Theatertage audience prize for her production for children of Der Barbier von Sevilla at Oper Frankfurt, which was seen in schools throughout the region.