Stage Director

It was his first great success, in a sense, his breakthrough: Nabucco. Premiered at Milan’s Scala in the spring of 1842, this work marks the start of the brilliant career of Giuseppe Verdi, who would become the leading Italian opera composer, going virtually unrivalled for decades. Set in biblical times in Jerusalem and Babylon, Nabucco deals with the fates of two peoples and cultures, but also the arrogance of the protagonist, who with an inflated sense of self-importance declares himself a god, only then to descend into madness. Tableaux with ceremonial gestures and poignant music, such as the famous chorus “Va pensiero” sung by the imprisoned Hebrews, are combined with scenes of intense expression, filled with drama and passion.

Nabucco

Unter den Linden & Bebelplatz

Satanic Rhapsody / Rustic Chivalry

Comunale Nouveau

La Cenerentola</em> di Rossini si configura come un’opera fatta di travestimento e trasformazione, sia nella storia sia nei motivi musicali. La trasformazione più miracolosa di tutte è, naturalmente, quella cui è soggetta la protagonista, Angelina: l’ingenua fanciulla che al levare del sipario è calata in un mondo di personaggi da opera buffa diviene gradualmente una donna matura e regale.

La Cenerentola

A surreal and horrifying femicide, where the victim—killed every night by her husband who smashes her head—is forced to come back to life to continue caring for her family and the home. Emma Dante, Golden Lion 2026 at the Venice Biennale, a powerful and uncompromising authorial voice, wrote and directed this play, focusing on the subordination of women, starting from the home, where violence is often an absolutely ordinary occurrence, like the slap the protagonist receives from her husband. And it is precisely in this dimension that the woman, at the moment of her death, is not believed, but must get back on her feet and return to her role, serving everyone. With Leonarda Saffi, Ivano Picciallo, Davide Leone, Giuditta Perriera.

L’angelo del focolare

Teatro Carignano

In a family, one day, the husband's habitual violence against his wife turns into a feminicide. The man kills her by smashing her head with an iron. The woman lies on the ground, dead, but her death is not enough: no one believes her. So it is that the woman, like the angel of the hearth in whose grotesque image she finds herself stuck, will be forced to get up and get back into the same routine, cleaning the house, taking care of housework, preparing food for her son and husband, looking after her elderly mother-in-law. Every morning, family members find her dead and do not believe her. Every morning she gets up, opens the moka pot, closed too tightly, and begins again to suffer the violence of her husband, the depression of her son, the impotence of her mother-in-law who, instead of condemning her brutal and despotic son, pities him. Every night the wife dies again, as in a circle of hell in which the punishment is never extinguished. In the half-light of a sleeping house, the angel shakes the flaps of her dressing gown and tries to fly, but she is only granted the intention of flight.

Stage Director

Emma Dante

Events

Upcoming events

16 - 21 Mar, 2027

L’angelo del focolare · Teatro Stabile Torino

29 - 30 Apr, 2027

The Angel Of The Hearth · Fondazione Teatro Donizetti

Past events

May 23, 2026

Nabucco · Staatsoper Berlin

21 - 29 Mar, 2026

Satanic Rhapsody / Rustic Chivalry · Teatro Comunale di Bologna

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