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Damiano Michieletto (born 1975) is an Italian stage director especially known for opera. He has staged productions at leading opera houses and festivals worldwide.
His awards include the 2015 Laurence Olivier Award for the production of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci at the Royal Opera House in London.




Career


Michieletto was born in Venice and grew up in Scorzè, a village in the Metropolitan City of Venice. He graduated in literature at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and directing at the Scuola d'Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi in Milan. He made his directing debut with a production of Weinberger's Švanda dudák at the Wexford Festival in 2003.
He is a specialist for works by Gioacchino Rossini with a critically acclaimed debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in 2007. At La Fenice in his hometown, he directed Mozart's three operas on librettos by Lorenzo da Ponte. He staged some rarely performed operas by Ramón Carnicer, Michael Daugherty, Nino Rota, Stefano Pavesi and Marco Tutino. In 2012, he made his debut at both the Salzburg Festival, where he directed Puccini's La Bohème, and at the Theater an der Wien, where he directed the same composer's Il trittico.
Michieletto directed at La Scala in Milan, for the first time in the 2013/14 season, a production of Verdi' Un ballo in maschera. At the Salzburg Festival, he directed again Verdi's Falstaff, Rossini's La Cenerentola, with Cecilia Bartoli in the title role. He made his London debut in June 2015, staging Rossini's Guillaume Tell at the Royal Opera House.
Michieletto directed Massenet's Cendrillon at the Komische Oper Berlin in 2016 and the world premiere of Filippo Perocco's Aquagranda at La Fenice in 2016, written on a commission on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1966 acqua alta flooding. In 2019, Michieletto directed Franz Schreker's Der ferne Klang at the Oper Frankfurt, where the world premiere had taken place in 1912.
For RAI television in 2017 he was invited by popstar Mika (singer) to collaborate in the realization of the CasaMika2 program on Rai 2. In 2020 he is the creator, author and host of the program Il volo del calabrone on Rai 5.
In 2021 Michieletto makes his debut at Berlin State Opera with Jenufa conducted by Simon Rattle and comes back to La Scala Milan with Salome by Strauss.




Productions


2003 Švanda dudák – Wexford Festival Opera
2004 Il trionfo delle belle by Stefano Pavesi – Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro
2006 Il dissoluto punito by Ramón Carnicier – Festival La Coruña
2007 La gazza ladra – Rossini Opera Festival
2007 Il cappello di paglia di Firenze by Nino Rota – Teatro Carlo Felice, Genua
2008 Lucia di Lammermoor – Opernhaus Zürich
2008 Jackie O by Michael Daugherty – Lugo Opera Festival
2009 Roméo et Juliette – La Fenice
2009 Die Entführung aus dem Serail – Teatro San Carlo, Neapel
2009 La scala di seta – Rossini Opera Festival
2010 Il corsaro – Opernhaus Zürich
2010 Don Giovanni – La Fenice
2010 Tramonto by Renato Simoni – Teatro Stabile del Veneto
2010 Madama Butterfly – Teatro Regio, Turin
2010 Sigismondo – Rossini Opera Festival
2011 Le nozze di Figaro – La Fenice
2011 The Greek Passion by Bohuslav Martinů – Teatro Massimo, Palermo
2012 Il ventaglio – Teatro Stabile del Veneto
2012 Così fan tutte – La Fenice / Liceu, Barcelona
2012 La Bohème – Salzburg Festival
2012 Il trittico – Theater an der Wien, Copenhagen Opera House
2013 Un ballo in maschera – La Scala, Milano
2013 Falstaff – Salzburg Festival
2013 Idomeneo – Theater an der Wien
2014 L’ispettore generale – Teatro Stabile del Veneto
2014 The Rake’s Progress – Opernhaus Leipzig, La Fenice
2014 La Cenerentola – Salzburg Festival
2015 Il viaggio a Reims – Dutch National Opera
2015 Divine Parole (Divinas Palabras by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán – Piccolo Teatro di Milano
2015 Guillaume Tell – Royal Opera House, London
2015 Die Zauberflöte – La Fenice
2015 Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci – Royal Opera House
2016 Otello by Rossini – Theater an der Wien
2016 Die Dreigroschenoper – Piccolo Teatro di Milan
2016 Cendrillon – Komische Oper Berlin
2016 Samson et Dalila - Opéra de Paris
2016 Aquagranda – world premiere, La Fenice
2017 La Damnation de Faust – Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
2018 Midsummer Night's Dream – Theater an der Wien
2018 Don Pasquale – Opéra de Paris
2019 Macbeth – La Fenice
2019 Der ferne Klang – Oper Frankfurt
2019 Alcina – Salzburg Pentecost Festival
2020 Rigoletto – Circo Massimo, Teatro dell’Opera Roma
2020 Béatrice et Bénédict – Opéra national de Lyon
2021 Salome – La Scala Milano
2021 Jenůfa – Berlin State Opera
2021 Kát'a Kabanová – Glyndebourne Festival
2022 Giulio Cesare – Théâtre des Champs-Elysées




Awards


2003 Irish Times Theatre Awards – Best Opera Production, for Schwanda
2008 Franco Abbiati Prize – Best Director, for La gazza ladra
2013 Reumert Prize – Best Opera Production, for Il Trittico
2015 Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis – category Beste Regie, for Idomeneo at the Theater an der Wien
2015 Laurence Olivier Award – Best Opera Production, for Cavalleria rusticana – Pagliacci
2017 Franco Abbiati Prize – Best Director, for Aquagranda
2018 Franco Abbiati Prize – Best Opera Production, for La Damnation de Faust
2018 Melbourne Green Room Awards - Best Director, for Cavalleria Rusticana - Pagliacci
2020 Melbourne Green Room Award - Best Opera Production, for "Il viaggio a Reims"




References






External links


Literature by and about Damiano Michieletto in the German National Library catalogue
Das Bühnenbild ist die halbe Miete (in German) welt.de, retrieved 23 October 2010
Franz Schreker: Der ferne Klang Archived 17 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine Oper Frankfurt 2019

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• Damiano Michieletto
• Animal Farm (opera)
• Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• Theater an der Wien
• Rossy de Palma
• Antonello Manacorda
• Lisette Oropesa
• Simone Alberghini
• Otello (Rossini)
• Ian Koziara