Michele Spotti (1993) is the Musical Director of Marseille's Opera House
and Philharmonic Orchestra.
He graduated first in violin and then in orchestral conducting under the
guidance of Daniele Agiman at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. He
then continued his studies at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva, at the
Gstaad Menuhin Festival Academy under Neeme Jarvi and Gennady
Rozhdestvensky, and in Italy under Gianandrea Noseda, Gianluigi Gelmetti,
and Daniele Gatti. At the age of twenty Spotti made his debut conducting
Le Nozze di Figaro at Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto and in 2016 Alberto
Zedda chose him as his assistant for Rossini's Ermione at the Opera de
Lyon.
His most recent engagements include debuts at: Opera national de Paris
with Turandot; San Carlo di Napoli with Simon Boccanegra; Arena di Verona
with Turandot that opened the 101st edition; Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
with Die Zauberflote; Deutsche Oper Berlin with Il viaggio a Reims; Wiener
Staatsoper with La fille du regiment; Palau de les Arts in Valencia with
Ernani; Semperoper Dresden with La boheme; Bunka Kaikan Tokyo with the
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Juan Diego Florez. He also opened the
18th edition of MITO SettembreMusica with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Among his professional partnerships are directors like Robert Wilson,
Damiano Michieletto, Barrie Kosky, Laurent Pelly, Pier Luigi Pizzi and
institutions such as the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Berlin Komische
Oper, Staatsoper Hannover and Stuttgart, Theatre du Capitole of Tolosa,
Theater Basel, Teatro Massimo of Palermo, Teatro Comunale di Bologna,
Wexford Opera Festival, Rossini Opera Festival and Festival della Valle
d'Itria. Offenbach's Barbe-bleue DVD (Opus Arte), recorded at the Opera de
Lyon, was honored with the Diapason D'or award.
Musical Director of the Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento, Michele
Spotti also enjoys a busy concerts schedule. Among the others: Orchestra
Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI; National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra;
Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France; Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini; Teatro
Regio Torino's orchestra.
Among his engagements for the 2024/25 season, in addition to numerous
appointments in Marseille: several symphony concerts, in Bolzano, Trento,
Milano and Rovigo with the Haydn Orchestra and Beatrice Rana, then in
Florence, in Basel and at the Tiroler Festspiele; the opera debut at the
Maggio Fiorentino with Norma; Rigoletto at the Deutsche Oper; a new
production of the diptych L'heure espagnole/Gianni Schicchi at Les Arts in
Valencia; the return to the Paris Opera with Les Brigands.
November 2024