Born in Venice, Damiano Michieletto made his international debut at the Wexford Festival in 2003. In 2012 he made his Salzburg Festival debut with La Bohème, returning for Falstaff in 2013, La Cenerentola in 2014 and Alcina in 2019. His productions include Lucia di Lammermoor, Romeo and Juliet, a Mozart/Da Ponte cycle, The Rake's Progress, The Magic Flute, Rigoletto, the world premiere of Baruffe, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Madame Butterfly, L'Élixir d'amour, La Damnation de Faust, Le Voyage à Reims, Don Pasquale, Jenůfa, Cendrillon, Orfeo ed Euridice, Idomeneo, Le Barbier de Séville, Alcina, Guillaume Tell, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Don Pasquale and Carmen. In recent seasons he has directed Kátia Kabanová in Glyndebourne and Copenhagen, Le Chevalier à la rose in Vilnius and Brussels, Bernstein's Mass in Rome, Béatrice et Bénédict in Lyon and Genoa, Cherubini's Salome and Médée in Milan, Julius Caesar in Egypt at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and in Leipzig, Raskatov's Animal Farm in Amsterdam and Vienna, Aida in Munich, Les Contes d'Hoffmann in Sydney, Venice and London. In the 2024-2025 season, he staged Handel's Messiah at the Komische Oper Berlin, La Fille du régiment at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Les Fiançailles au couvent at the MusikTheater an der Wien, the world premiere of Il Nome della Rosa and West Side Story at the Opera di Roma, where he is Artistic Director for the 2025 summer season. On the stage, he has directed Goldoni's L'Éventail, Gogol's L'Inspecteur général and Chekhov's La Demande en mariage / L'Ours at Veneto's Teatro Stabile, Ramón Maria del Valle-Inclán's Divinas palabras and Bertolt Brecht's L'Opéra de quat'sous at Milan's Piccolo Teatro.For the cinema, he directed the film Gianni Schicchi, the film-opera Rigoletto al Circo Massimo, and is currently working on the film Primavera, loosely based on the novel Stabat Mater by Tiziano Scarpa.At the Opéra national de Paris: The Barber of Seville, 2014; Samson et Dalila, 2016; Don Pasquale, 2018; Don Quixote, 2024

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