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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

BrusselsCavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci

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Mascagni, Leoncavallo
Alevtina Ioffe; Damiano Michieletto; La Monnaie | De Munt; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti; La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

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

BregenzLa traviataNew production

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Verdi: La traviata
Kirill Karabits; Damiano Michieletto; Pietro Rizzo; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti
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Darkness without passion: Damiano Michieletto’s Carmen at La Scala

Clémentine Margaine (Carmen) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
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.
**111
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Wagner’s Lohengrin finally returns – swanless – to Rome

Dmitry Korchak (Lohengrin) © Fabrizio Sansoni | Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
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. 
***11
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A long, strange trip: Opera Philadelphia’s Il viaggio a Reims

Scott Conner (Lord Sidney) © Steven Pisano
The intrepid company brings Damiano Michieletto’s well-traveled production of a Rossini rarity to the US for the first time. 
***11
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Glyndebourne revives Michieletto’s Kátya Kabanová

Miryam Tomè (Angel), Kateřina Kněžíková (Kátya) and Rachael Wilson (Varvara) © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Marc Brenner
Damiano Michieletto’s production of Janáček’s opera breaks a key tenet of high-concept opera: where it should reveal, it obfuscates. 
***11
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World premiere success for Filidei’s Il nome della rosa at La Scala

Kate Lindsey (Adso da Melk) and ensemble © Teatro alla Scala | Brescia e Amisano

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

****1
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Mummy issues: Michieletto’s Carmen returns to The Royal Opera

Aigul Akhmetshina (Carmen) © RBO | Marc Brenner
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. 
***11
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ParisDon Quichotte

Opéra national de Paris
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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International Opera Awards 2025 announced

Agnes Baltsa, Lifetime Achievement Award winner © GNO/Andreas Simopoulos
The legendary mezzo-soprano Agnes Baltsa received a standing ovation while collecting her Lifetime Achievement Award, while other awards went to artists and companies from around the globe.