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Marco Armiliato - conductor
One of the leading names in the international operatic scene, Marco Armiliato is
regular guest in the most prestigious theaters in the world. His recording of Verismo
arias with Renée Fleming for Decca won a Grammy Award in 2010.
His recent engagements include: Anna Bolena, Ernani,Aida, Francesca
da Rimini, Rigoletto, Tosca, La Sonnambula, Madama Butterfly,
La Bohème, Trovatore(Metropolitan Opera); Tosca, Rigoletto,
La Traviata,Turandot, La Bohème(Bavarian State Opera); Aida,
Tosca and Madama Butterfly (Arena di Verona); La Traviata,
Andrea Chénier and Tosca (Vienna State Opera); Madama Butterfly
(Chicago) and La Fille du Régiment (Paris Opera). Recently he conducted a
new production of La Traviata at Opernhaus in Zurich; new production of Faust
at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; Elisir d’Amore and La Bohème at the
Wiener Staatsoper; Lucia di Lammermoor at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
Plans for 2016/2017 season include: Manon Lescaut (concert version)
at the Salzbur Festival; Otello and La Fanciulla del West in Zurich;
La Traviata, Andrea Chénier and a lyric concert in Munich; Madama Butterfly
at the Teatro Real in Madrid; Rigoletto in Chicago; L’Elisir d’amore,
Manon Lescaut, Don Pasquale, Turandot, Aida, Il Trovatore(new
production), La Fanciulla del West, Otello at the Vienna State Opera; La Bohème,Manon
Lescaut, Aida and Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac at the Metropolitan
in New York where he also will conduct several important productions in next seasons.
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Daniele Abbado - director
Daniele Abbado began his career as a theatre director in 1988, extending progressively
his interest in stage dramaturgy, TV direction, multimedia shows and lyric opera
productions. His work in opera repertoire include different masterpieces by Mozart,
Rossini, Bellini, Verdi, Boito, Puccini, Weber, Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, and
at the same time he directed productions of 20th century authors such as Berg, Weill,
Ravel, Stravinskij, Honegger, Britten, Dalla Piccola. His production of Il prigioniero
and Il volo di notte by Dalla Piccola, produced by Maggio Musicale (Florence) was
awarded the Premio Abbiati as best Italian performance in 2004 and in 2012 he received
the Premio Oscar della Lirica as Best Director. Daniele Abbado was Artistic Director
of Teatro “R. Valli” in Reggio Emilia (2002-2012). After the great success of his
Debussy production Pelléas et Mélisande at the Maggio Musicale in Florence, in Nabucco
at the Liceu in Barcelona, Daniele Abbado directed Verdi’s Attila for the
opening night of the season at Comunale in Bologna then revived at the Massimo in
Palermo and in autumn 2016 at La Fenice in Venice.
Further plans include: Falstaff and Pelléas et Mélisande
at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Trovatore at the Wiener Staatsoper in Vienna;
Nabucco at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and at La Scala
in Milan; Falstaff at Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Tosca at Teatro Comunale
in Bologna.
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Alessandro Carletti - light designer
Born in Rome, he studied photography and painting and in the late 90s he started
working at the Rossini Opera Festival where he consolidated his experience in opera
productions.
With director Damiano Michieletto he started collaborating in 2008 in Lugo for Jackie’O.
He worked with the same director at Teatro San Carlo in Naples for Die Entführung
aus dem Serail, and at Rossini Opera Festival he created lighting design
for La Scala di Seta and in 2010 Sigismondo. Furthermore, in 2011
he continued with the same director in Valencia on Elisir d’amore, at the
Teatro Massimo di Palermo Greek Passion and Così fan tutte at the
New National Theatre Tokyo. Since then Alessandro collaborates regularly with Damiano
Michieletto. He worked with directors such as Daniele Abbado, Francesco Micheli,
Henning Brockhaus, Pippo Delbono, Franco Ripa di Meana, Yannis Kokkos and others.
Recent productions worth mentioning include: Il Trittico (Theater an der
Wien), Don Carlo (Wiener Staatsoper), Cavalleria Rusticana(Teatro
San Carlo, Naples), Nabucco (Royal Opera House Covent Garden), Ballo in Maschera
(Teatro La Scala), Die Zauberflöte (Teatro la Fenice), Otello (Theater
an der Wien) Il Trittico (Teatro dell'Opera in Rome), Dreigroschenoper
(Opera da tre soldi) at Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Lucia di Lammermoor at Teatro
Regio in Turin and many others.
For the 2014/15 season he created the lighting design for Il Viaggio A Reims
(De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam), Divine parole (by Ramón del Valle Inclan,
Piccolo Teatro di Milano) and Guillaume Tell at Royal Opera House Covent
Garden(Knight of Illumination Award 2015) all three productions with director Damiano
Michieletto. During the season 2015/16 and for the second time at Royal Opera House
in London he created the lighting design for the new production of Cavalleria Rusticana
and Pagliacci which has been awarded as Best Opera Production at the
Laurence Olivier Awards 2016.
Further productions include: Cendrillon (Komische Oper Berlin), Nabucco
(Royal Opera House London and at Terme in Caracalla with the Teatro dell’Opera in
Rome), La donna del Lago (Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro), Samson et Dalila
(Opéra de Paris and Metropolitan Opera in New York), Aquagranda (La Fenice), Cavalleria
Rusticana & Pagliacci and Il Viaggio a Reims (Opera Australia,
Sydney), Falstaff (La Scala, Milan), Il Trovatore (Wiener Staatsoper)
and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theater an der Wien), Il Viaggio a Reims
(Royal Opera Copenhagen), Rigoletto (Dutch National Opera Amsterdam).
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Wiener Staatsoper
Vienna
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