Following Puccini’s La Bohème in 2012, Verdi’s Falstaff in 2013 and Rossini’s Cenerentola in 2014, Damiano Michieletto returns on the 7th and 9th of June to the Salzburg Pentecost Festival with anew production of Handel’s Alcina. “One of the most repeated words in the libretto of Alcina is ‘inganno’(deception). The...
Franz Schreker’s masterpiece, Der Ferne Klang (The Distant Sound) is returning to the Frankfurt Opera, where it premiered in 1912, and where it has been missing since 1945. The show is to open on Sunday 31 March 2019, at 6pm. The new production is by...
Damiano Michieletto’s ninth production at La Fenice in Venice is Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth, opening the 2018/2019 season. The show comes after the successful productions of Roméo et Juliette, of the Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy, of Rake’s Progress, Magic Flute, Aquagranda, and The Merry Widow, and will be running from Friday 23 November. On stage...
After its success in 2016 at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, "La donna del lago" by Gioachino Rossini returns on stage at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, in the production with the direction by Damiano Michieletto and with the conduction by Michele Mariotti, from...
Damiano Michieletto returns to Theater an der Wien with a new production of A Midsummer Night's dream by Benjamin Britten, on stage from April 15th to 25th. Scenes by Paolo Fantin and costumes by Klaus Bruns. On the podium Antonello Manacorda. > Theater an der Wien...
After successful performances in London – where it made its debut in 2015 and was later re-staged last December – and in Sidney and Melbourne, the double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, directed by Damiano Michieletto – the show was prized with the 2016...
Damiano Michieletto signs a new production of Die lustige Witwe that will debut on February 2nd, at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, where Franz Lehár’s operetta is missing since 30 years. On the podium Stefano Montanari; sets are by Paolo Fantin, costumes by Carla Teti,...
Guillaume Tell directed by Damiano Michieletto will open the 2018 season of the Teatro Massimo di Palermo on January 23rd. Missing from Palermo for more than fifty years, this Gioachino Rossini’s opera is conducted by Gabriele Ferro. The production is coming from the Royal Opera House of...
“Damnation is losing humanity as a consequence of isolation and lack of human relations”. These are the words of stage director Damiano Michieletto referring to Hector Berlioz’ masterpiece La Damnation de Faust, on stage at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, beginning 12 December. The show,...
Don Giovanni signed by Damiano Michieletto is back on stage at Teatro la Fenice in Venice on October 13. Stefano Montanari is on the podium and Donna Elvira is interpreted by Carmela Remigio (re-runs on October 15, 18, 20, 22 & 25). Teatro La Fenice...