Damiano Michieletto
Director
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Damiano Michieletto, one of the world's most successful opera directors, made his hugely successful debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2018/19 with a stunning production of of Schreker's Der ferne Klang / The Elusive Sound (available on CD - OehmsClassics), returning in 2019/20 for this production of Rossini's Otello. He studied theatre direction at the Paolo Grassi Civic School of Dramatic Art in Milan and graduated in modern literature in his home town of Venice. He is much sought-after by leading opera houses and festivals around the world, including the Salzburg and Glyndebourne festivals, the Opéra de Paris, Théâtre des Champs Elysée, Covent Garden in London, the Bolschoi in Moscow, New National Theatre in Tokyo, the Komische Oper and Staatsoper in Berlin, the Theater an der Wien, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Teatro Real in Madrid and Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Recent productions have included Handel's Alcina at the Salzburg Festival (Whitsun and summer 2019), revivals of Don Pasquale in Paris und London, The Merry Widow in Rome and Venice, Il viaggio a Reims in Sydney and Moscow, Luisa Miller and Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci in Barcelona, Rome and London and Janáček's Jenůfa at the Staatsoper in Berlin, Kát’a Kabanová in Glyndebourne, Strauss‘ Der Rosenkavalier in Vilnius, La Cenerentola at the Semperoper in Dresden, Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the Komische Oper Berlin and Giulio Cesare in Egitto at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and at Oper Leipzig. In 2023 he directed Salome at La Scala Milan, Les Contes d'Hoffmann in Sydney, Aida at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and the world premiere of Raskatov’s Animal Farm in Amsterdam. His work has won prizes including the Laurence Olivier, Irish Times, Casta Diva, Premio Abbiati, Austrian Music Theatre Prize Musik Prize, the Reumert and Melbourne Green Room. Damiano Michieletto is also much in demand as a director of plays, working mostly with the Teatro Stabile del Veneto and Piccolo Teatro in Milan.