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PesaroLa scala di seta (The Silken Ladder)
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Rossini: La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder)
Iván López Reynoso; Damiano Michieletto; Rossini Opera Festival; Paolo Fantin; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
ParisLe Barbier de Séville
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
François López-Ferrer; Damiano Michieletto; Opéra national de Paris; Jader Bignamini; Paolo Fantin; Silvia Aymonino; Fabio Barettin
ParisDon Pasquale
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Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Speranza Scappucci; Damiano Michieletto; Opéra national de Paris; Paolo Fantin; Agostino Cavalca; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
MadridEl barbero de SevillaNew production
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Giacomo Sagripanti; Damiano Michieletto; Teatro Real; Paolo Fantin; Silvia Aymonino; Fabio Barettin; Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real
MilanCarmenNew production
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Bizet: Carmen
Myung-whun Chung; Damiano Michieletto; Teatro alla Scala; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
ViennaAnimal Farm
Raskatov: Animal Farm
Alexander Soddy; Damiano Michieletto; Vienna State Opera; Paolo Fantin; Klaus Bruns; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
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Darkness without passion: Damiano Michieletto’s Carmen at La Scala
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Despite Michieletto's visual gloom, the evening is redeemed by Myung-whun Chung’s masterful conducting and a cast that brings conviction to a production that rarely trusts the opera’s own dramatic power.
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.
World premiere success for Filidei’s Il nome della rosa at La Scala
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A great cast and an enjoyable score seal the success of a new opera based on Umberto Eco's classic historical murder mystery, The Name of the Rose.
Mummy issues: Michieletto’s Carmen returns to The Royal Opera
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Aigul Akhmetshina is on the verge of becoming the definitive Carmen; in this first revival of Michieletto's 2024 production at Covent Garden, she delivers the standout performance.
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ParisDon Quichotte
Massenet: Don Quichotte
Patrick Fournillier; Damiano Michieletto; Opéra national de Paris; Paolo Fantin; Agostino Cavalca; 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
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
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Charlotte Goupille-Lebret, cheffe d’orchestre des coulisses
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Dans les coulisses de la spectaculaire mise en scène des Contes d'Hoffmann par Damiano Michieletto, la régisseuse de production lyonnaise s'est confiée sur son métier hors du commun et injustement méconnu.
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.