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 École de Musique in
Geneva, at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival Academy under Neeme Järvi 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 Opéra de Lyon.
His most recent engagements include returns at the Deutsche Oper
with Rigoletto and at Les Arts in Valencia
with a new production of the diptych L’heure espagnole/Gianni
Schicchi; debuts at Maggio Fiorentino with
Norma; Opéra 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 Zauberflöte;
Deutsche Oper Berlin with Il viaggio a Reims; Wiener Staatsoper
with La fille du régiment; Semperoper
Dresden with La bohème; Bunka Kaikan Tokyo with the Tokyo
Philharmonic Orchestra and Juan Diego
Flórez. He also opened the 18th edition of MITO SettembreMusica with
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and
conducted the Orchestra Haydn on a four-concert tour in Italy with
Beatrice Rana.
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, Théâtre 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 Opéra 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 the upcoming engagements of the current season are his return to
the Opéra de Paris with Les
Brigands and to the Arena di Verona with Rigoletto. The
2025/2026 season schedule includes his debut at the
Metropolitan Opera House in New York with La traviata, a new
production of L’italiana in Algeri at the
Grand Théâtre de Genève, Falstaff at the Festival Verdi
in Parma and a concert with the Orchestre de
Chambre de Lausanne alongside Beatrice Rana.
June 2025