Carlo Lepore

Le Barbier de Seville (2020)

Inspired by Beaumarchais' comedy, Rossini retains all the passion to create this bubbling opera buffa. A native of Venice, the cradle of the commedia dell'arte, Damiano Michieletto is sensitive to the burlesque vein of Rossinian music. He transposes the ac ...

Le Nozze di Figaro (2019)

In this new "Marriage of Figaro", Jérémie Rhorer revisits this composer and US film director James Gray makes his first foray into opera. This opera is recorded for broadcast by Louise Narboni. ...

Puccini: Gianni Schicchi (2018)

Weary of tragic subjects, for the final part of Il Trittico Puccini composed a grand confidence trick orchestrated by a falsifier willing to do anything to gain wealth. Including bringing back the dead! ...

Cenerentola - A Live Fairytale (2013)

Rossini's opera based on the fairy-tale Cinderella, filmed in real-life Italian locations in the ballrooms and gardens of some of Turin's finest palaces. ...

Rossini - Il signor Bruschino (2012)

Rossini: La Scala Di Seta (2012)

This colourful and exuberant production was staged by Daminano Michieletto, "one of the truly new voices in stage direction today" (L'Unita). Damiano Michieletto made his international debut at the Wexford Opera Festival in 2003 with a highly-acclaimed pro ...

Giuseppe Verdi : La forza del destino (2011)

Donna Leonora, daughter of the Marquis of Calatrava, is about to flee secretly with her lover Don Alvaro (son of the Viceroy of Mexico and an Inca princess). The Marquis bursts in unexpectedly. Alvaro hesitates to raise his weapon against his lover's fathe ...