«A lonely and somewhat clumsy man, who can’t do one thing right». This is how Damiano Michieletto describes the lead character of Georg Friedrich Händel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, the opera that marks his debut at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, on stage beginning Wednesday 11 May....
«It’s a journey into the discovery of love, or better, the rediscovery of love. A love giving us new eyes, and a new vision of our beloved one». This is how Damiano Michieletto describes his new production of Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck, on stage at...
A new production of Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose), staged by Damiano Michieletto, is about to open in Vilnius. Initially scheduled for the Spring of 2020 at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels – which is co-producing the show with the Teatro Comunale di...
A new production of Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose), staged by Damiano Michieletto, is about to open in Vilnius. Initially scheduled for the Spring of 2020 at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels – which is co-producing the show with the Teatro Comunale di...
Four concerts for four retirement homes of Treviso on Saturday the 13th of June: this is the idea of the Venetian stage director Damiano Michieletto to give a moment of entertainment to the patients of the city where he lives. The initiative will take place...
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...