Damiano Michieletto

Primavera (2025)

In 18th-century Venice, 20-year-old violin virtuoso Cecilia lives at the Pièta orphanage, where, despite her talent, she remains confined, knowing that marriage is the only way out. Yet, her life takes a turn after she meets Antonio Vivaldi, a brilliant a ...

Royal Ballet & Opera 2024/25: The Tales of Hoffmann (2025)

Through the haze of the years, a poet remembers the women he loved. But when it comes to matters of the heart, nothing is as it seems. Particularly when the devil himself is involved. ...

The Royal Opera 2024/25: The Tales of Hoffmann (2025)

Der Rosenkavalier - La Monnaie / De Munt (2022)

The Marschallin is relishing time with her young lover, when her cousin's sudden arrival ignites a comic chain of events. With honour at risk, social status bartered and happiness illusive, the Marschallin accepts time cannot be stopped and she must set yo ...

Gianni Schicchi (2021)

Relatives of a recently deceased wealthy man enlist the help of a wise man to help them inherit the dead man's properties. ...

Rigoletto al Circo Massimo (2021)

A theatrical film about the staging of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto in July 2020. It was the first live show after the Covid-19 lockdown, which is why various anti-virus measures were imposed on the show: the actors performed on a 1500 m² stage, while ...

Jenůfa - Staatsoper Unter Den Linden (2021)

The rigid morals of a village community put a young woman under pressure: Jenůfa is pregnant by her lover Števa, but he rejects her and retracts his offer of marriage. Once the child is born, Jenůfa's stepmother, the village sextoness, is worried about ...

Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci - Royal Opera House 2019/20 (2020)

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 ...

Royal Opera House: Don Pasquale (2019)

Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti's comedy of domestic drama across two generations. The witty story of a middle-aged man whose supposed young wife runs rings around him – with her own ulterior romantic ...

Donizetti: Don Pasquale (2018)

First performed in Paris in 1843, at the turning point of several eras, Don Pasquale, a composite and varied work, is the apotheosis of opera buffa. Performed for the first time at the Paris Opera, the production has been entrusted to the Italian director, ...

Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila (2016)

Lightning streaks through the skies as Dalila declares her love to Samson in one of the finest arias of romantic opera. "My heart awakens to your voice like a flower to the kiss of dawn." An enchanting yet treacherous beauty… When the thunder at last rum ...

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2016)

The composer's opera buffa transcends the spirit of Beaumarchais' comedy and combines the absurd with a touch of satirical realism in a score where rhythm and virtuosity place the comic effects in an ongoing dramatic narration. As a result, the characters ...

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2015)

Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, after Walter Scott's 'The Bride of Lammermoor'. ...

Royal Opera House: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci (2015)

Damiano Michieletto's production for The Royal Opera updates the works to southern Italy in the late 20th century. ...

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (2015)

An esoteric fairy-tale, a mystical-dreamlike tale, and a symbolic-Masonic course: No matter which perspective you consider it from, The Magic Flute will always be one of Mozart's undisputed masterpieces. Amidst exotic, fanciful settings and cruel trials to ...

Guillaume Tell (2015)

New production. Recorded live at Royal Opera House, July, 05, 2015. ...

Verdi: Falstaff (Salzburger Festspiele) (2013)

This 2013 Salzburg Festival performance of Falstaff, Giuseppe Verdis late masterwork and crowning achievement, features conductor Zubin Mehta and the Vienna Philharmonic. The staging thought up by Italian director Damiano Michieletto moves the action from ...

La Bohème (2012)

Live performance of Puccini's opera at the Salzburg Festival in Austria. Piotr Beczala stars as Rodolfo with Anna Netrebko as Mimi, Massimo Cavalletti as Marcello and Nino Machaidze as Musetta. Daniele Gatti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Sta ...

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 ...

La Gazza Ladra (2012)

Dynamic are proud to present, for the first time on Blu-ray, Rossini's La Gazza Ladra 'The Thieving Magpie' recorded at the prestigious Rossini Opera Festival in 2007 (standard DVD release 33567). The stage is set in modern times and the whole story is pr ...

I 400 giorni - Funamboli e maestri (2023)