Damiano Michieletto

Damiano Michieletto studied literature at the Università Ca’ Foscari and directing at the Scuola d’Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi, Milan. Productions include Guillaume Tell, Don Pasquale, La bohème, Falstaff, La Cenerentola, Alcina (Salzburg Festival), Un ballo in maschera, Salome (Milan), The Rake’s Progress (Leipzig), Don Pasquale, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Samson et Dalila (Paris), L’elisir d’amore, Der Rosenkavalier (Brussels), Orfeo ed Euridice, Cendrillon (Komische Oper Berlin), Roméo et Juliette, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Die Zauberflöte, Aquagranda, Die lustige Witwe, Macbeth, Battistelli’s Le baruffe (Venice), Der ferne Klang (Frankfurt), Il viaggio a Reims, Rigoletto (DNO), La damnation de Faust, Rigoletto (Rome), La gazza ladra, La donna del lago (Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro), L’elisir d’amore (Valencia), Lucia di Lammermoor, Luisa Miller (Zurich), Il trittico, Idomeneo, Rossini’s Otello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theater an der Wien) and Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées). Theatre productions include Brecht and Weill’s Die Dreigroschenoper (Piccolo Teatro, Milan) and Goldoni’s The Fan, Gogol’s The Government Inspector and Chekhov’s La domanda di matrimonio/L’orso (Teatro Stabile del Veneto, Padua). For ROH, he has directed Guillaume Tell, Don Pasquale and the Olivier award-winning Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci. In 2025, he will programme the Caracalla Festival in Rome.