Damiano Michieletto

Within a short time, Damiano Michieletto has emerged on the international scene as one of the most interesting representatives of the young generation of Italian directors and is now among the most sought-after in the world. He studied opera and theater production at Milan's Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Art and graduated in modern literature from the University of Venice, his hometown. His plays have been performed at major theaters, festivals, and institutions such as the Salzburg Festival, La Scala, the Paris Opera, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Royal Opera House in London, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Bolshoi in Moscow, the New National Theater in Tokyo, the Sydney Opera in Australia, the Komische Oper and Staatsoper in Berlin, the Theateran der Wien in Vienna, the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, the Teatro Real in Madrid, La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. His most recent engagements include: the Italian premiere of Béatrice et Bénédict at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Orfeo ed Euridice at the Komische Oper in Berlin, Battistelli's Le baruffe to Venice, Giulio Cesare in Egitto at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and atOpera Rome, the Italian premiere of Bernstein's Mass to Rome, the world premiere of Animal Farm based on Orwell's novel of the same name and composed from Raskatov in Amsterdam and later revived at the Wiener Staatsoper, Salome and Médée at the Teatro alla Scala, Les Contes d'Hoffmann to Sydney and Venice, Aida at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Carmen at the Royal Opera House and Massenet's Don Quichotte atOpera Paris. His productions have received many awards such as the Laurence Olivier Award, the Irish Time Award, the Russian Casta Diva Award, the Abbiati Prize of the Italian Music Critic, the Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis, the Reumert Prize, and the Melbourne Green RoomAward.In addition to his intense activity in opera theater, Michieletto is also very active in prose theater, equally important in his artistic career, collaborating in particular with the Teatro Stabile del Veneto and the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.