Damiano Michieletto

Saverio Clemente
Andrea De Amici Luca Targetti
Damiano Michieletto had quickly emerged to the international scene as
one of the most interesting representatives of the youngest generation of
Italian directors. He followed the direction course at School of Dramatic
Arts “Paolo Grassi” in Milan and also graduated in Modern Letters at
university of Venice, his home town.
His production of Jaromír Weinberger’s Švanda Dudák at the 2003
Wexford Festival, acclaimed by the critics, wins the Irish Times ESB/Irish
Theatre Award.
Damiano
Michieletto
Director
Among the others, he stages L’italiana in Algeri at Teatro Olimpico in
Vicenza, La gazza ladra at Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, in coproduction with Teatro Comunale in Bologna and Fondazione Arena di
Verona (it wins the 2008 Franco Abbiati Award), Lucia di Lammermoor,
Il Corsaro, Luisa Miller and Poliuto at the Zürich Opernhaus, Roméo
et Juliette and the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy at Teatro La Fenice in
Venice, Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Teatro di San Carlo in
Naples, La scala di seta at the Rossini Opera Festival and at La Scala
in Milan, Il barbiere di Siviglia at Grand Théâtre de Genève, Madama
Butterfly in Turin, L’elisir d’amore in Valencia, Graz and Madrid,
Martinů’s The Greek Passion in Palermo, Così fan tutte at the New
National Theatre in Tokyo, Il Trittico at the Theater an der Wien and the
Royal Opera in Copenhagen, Un ballo in maschera at La Scala,
Idomeneo at Theater an der Wien and The Rake’s Progress at Leipzig
Opera and Teatro La Fenice. He makes his Salzburg Festival debut with
La Bohème in 2012, returns with Falstaff in 2013 and with La
Cenerentola in 2014.
His engagements in the 2014/15 season are: Il viaggio a Reims at
Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam, Guillaume Tell at Royal Opera
House in London and reprises of his versions of Il Barbiere di Siviglia at
Opéra de Paris and Così fan tutte at Liceu in Barcelona.
His next engagements in the 2015/2016 are new productions of
Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci at Covent Garden in London,
Rossini’s Otello at Theater and der Wien in Wien, Cendrillon at
Komische Oper in Berlin and Donna del Lago in Pesaro.
In addition to his sustained operatic activity, Damiano Michieletto is also
active in drama productions, equally important in his artistic career. He
stages an original and highly acclaimed edition of Goldoni's Il ventaglio;
most recently a caustic and fascinating vision of Gogol's L’Ispettore
generale, with Teatro Stabile del Veneto, on tour in Italy and which lays
over at the Piccolo Teatro Grassi in Milan; more recently he staged, for
the Piccolo Teatro’s season, Divinas palabras of Ramón María del Valle
Inclán . In the current season for Piccolo Teatro in Milano, Damiano
Michieletto will stage Die Dreigroschenoper of Bertolt Brecht.
December 2015
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