Costume Designer

Il barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini returns to the Cavea del Teatro, the evocative open-air theater located right on the roof of the Maggio. The opera is conducted by the young maestro Riccardo Bisatti, with the now “traditional” staging by Damiano Michieletto. Twenty-one years after its first production, which took place in July 2005 at the Roman Theatre of Fiesole - and thus originally conceived and designed for an open space, just like the Cavea del Maggio - it reaches its eleventh staging within the Theater’s seasons. Despite its age, it retains intact all the freshness, originality, and modernity that have made it over time an “evergreen” production, highly appreciated by the Maggio. Michieletto’s production features an almost total absence of real sets and focuses all attention on comic gags and carefully crafted gestures. It begins as a train journey, announced over a loudspeaker - an cheerful way of traveling “through” Rossini’s opera, evoking places and situations through imagination. Evocative and eccentric costumes and bright colors turn the characters into caricatures, almost as if they were figures from commedia dell’arte: Don Basilio is green, with long, greasy hair and a hooked nose, entirely green with envy like a snake (or rather, a basilisk); Figaro has hair that suggests fox-like ears and a mustache, while Don Bartolo, dressed all in white, resembles a pot-bellied bulldog who jealously watches Rosina, dressed in red like her lover Lindoro.

Il barbiere di Siviglia

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

The next Music Director of the Teatro alla Scala, Myung-Whun Chung, reaches his eleventh opera title at La Scala (having conducted over 140 concerts both at home and on tour) with this new production of Bizet’s Carmen, a co-production with London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Madrid’s Teatro Real. Well-versed in French music—also through his work with the Opéra Bastille and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France—Chung leads a cast that is perfectly idiomatic. Alongside Clémentine Margaine in the title role, alternating with Stéphanie d’Oustrac, and Giorgi Manoshvili as Escamillo, the production features Vittorio Grigolo as Don José—a major Italian voice with a strong affinity for the French repertoire— alternating with Matthew Polenzani. Damiano Michieletto and set designer Paolo Fantin reduce local colour to a minimum in order to construct a bare and effective spectacle, focused on the ineluctable fate of the protagonists.

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Carmen

Teatro alla Scala

Lohengrin

Teatro La Fenice

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte from the drama El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra by Tirso de Molina, through the libretto Don Giovanni o sia Il convitato di pietra by Giovanni Bertati for Giuseppe Gazzaniga.

Don Giovanni

Carlo Felice Theater

Trapped in an unhappy marriage Káťa is drawn into a passionate affair. As a wild storm brews, she is overwhelmed by her actions. Damiano Michieletto’s raw staging cuts to the heart of Káťa’s guilt and despair as she makes a choice between love and life itself.

Káťa Kabanová

Glyndebourne

Damiano Michieletto’s searing production returns, casting a new light on the lust, violence and passion of Bizet’s ever-popular opera.

Royal Opera House

Journeying back to his school days, Hoffmann relives his childhood romance with Olympia, a model student in every sense. Doomed love follows him into adulthood, where the dancer, Antonia, is taken from him too soon. Meanwhile, the sensual courtesan Giulietta has her own secret agenda. As memory and fantasy becomes increasingly blurred, will Hoffmann find the enigmatic Stella before it is too late?

The Royal Opera: The Tales of Hoffman (ENCORE) – Cert TBC

Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts

Juan Diego Flórez and Leonardo Caimi lead a fantastic cast in Offenbach's dream-like opera.

The Tales of Hoffmann

Why choose when you can have drama, tragedy and comedy all in one evening? Enjoy Puccini's operatic trilogy in Damiano Michieletto's critically acclaimed and Reumert award-winning production.

Il trittico

Copenhagen Opera House

An all-star cast brings Damiano Michieletto’s white-hot production to life, with Ginger Costa-Jackson and Ramona Zaharia in the fiery title role, alongside Russell Thomas and Valentyn Dytiuk as the jealous and despairing Don José. Sesto Quatrini conducts Bizet’s electrifying and sensual score.

Men and women of flesh and blood take centre stage in Cavalleria rusticana as in Pagliacci. Reality becomes theatre and, when the masks come off, theatre becomes reality. In both of these short works, obsessive love and jealousy give rise to violent emotions and passionate musical outbursts. When they brought rural Italy to the opera stage, Pietro Mascagni and Ruggero Leoncavallo inaugurated verismo in music. Director Damiano Michieletto is reprising his 2018 production, which made a lasting impression with its powerful neo-realist transposition to an Italian village in the mid-twentieth century. For her debut at La Monnaie, conductor Alevtina Ioffe promises to bring out the emotional depth of these scores with their unparalleled dramatic force.

Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci

La Monnaie - De Munt

In 1847, Giuseppe Verdi was working on a piece unlike anything ever seen on the opera stage. To turn a dark, blood-soaked Shakespearean tragedy into an Italian opera was already a bold undertaking. But to go even further and create an opera that adhered closely to the character of the original rather than to established operatic forms seemed almost impossible. “I believe the time has come to abandon the usual forms and models,” Verdi wrote. Thus he ventured into the creation of a musical drama exploring psychological abysses amid a whirl of crime, guilt, and punishment, under the imposing English title of the original: Macbeth.

Costume Designer

Carla Teti

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 29 - Nov 21, 2026

Carmen · Royal Opera House

14 - 31 Mar, 2027

Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci · La Monnaie / De Munt

May 2 - Jul 10, 2027

Macbeth · Oper Köln

Past events

11 - 18 Jul, 2026

Il barbiere di Siviglia · Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

8 - 27 Jun, 2026

Carmen · Teatro alla Scala

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