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.

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.

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).