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Bizet: Carmen
Eun Sun Kim; Damiano Michieletto; Teatro Real; Iñaki Encina Oyón; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti
RomeLohengrinNew production
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Michele Mariotti; Damiano Michieletto; Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
LyonLes Contes d'HoffmannNew production
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Emmanuel Villaume; Damiano Michieletto; Opéra de Lyon; Charlotte Corderoy; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti
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Wagner's Lohengrin finally returns – swanless – to Rome
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Damiano Michieletto is entrusted with the first staging of Lohengrin in Rome for 50 years, but his distracting staging is redeemed by the musical side of things.
A long, strange trip: Opera Philadelphia’s Il viaggio a Reims
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The intrepid company brings Damiano Michieletto’s well-traveled production of a Rossini rarity to the US for the first time.
Glyndebourne revives Michieletto’s Kátya Kabanová
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Damiano Michieletto’s production of Janáček’s opera breaks a key tenet of high-concept opera: where it should reveal, it obfuscates.
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ParisIl barbiere di Siviglia
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Carlo Montanaro; Damiano Michieletto; Opéra national de Paris; Paolo Fantin; Silvia Aymonino; Fabio Barettin; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
ParisSamson et Dalila
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Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila
Philippe Jordan; Damiano Michieletto; Opéra national de Paris; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
ParisDon Pasquale
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Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Evelino Pidò; Damiano Michieletto; Opéra national de Paris; Paolo Fantin; Agostino Cavalca; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
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Breaking the cage from the inside: Dutch National Opera’s Animal Farm
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A new opera based on Orwell’s Animal Farm will shortly open at Dutch National Opera. Director Damiano Michieletto, librettist Ian Burton and composer Alexander Raskatov speak about this ambitious and fervent new project.
Photo gallery: Animal Farm in rehearsal
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An exclusive photo gallery taking a behind-the-scenes look at Dutch National Opera’s ambitious new production of Animal Farm.