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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. [1]
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. [2] He made his directing debut with a production of Weinberger's Švanda dudák at the Wexford Festival in 2003. [1] [3] [4]
He is a specialist for works by Gioacchino Rossini with a critically acclaimed debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in 2007. [1] At La Fenice in his hometown, he directed Mozart's three operas on librettos by Lorenzo da Ponte. [1] 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 , [1] and at the Theater an der Wien, where he directed the same composer's Il trittico . [5]
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. [1]
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.
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