On the podium Francesco Lanzillotta, the Sferisterio Music Director, who will conduct some of today’s most appreciated belcanto artists such as John Osborn at his much-awaited debut as Nemorino, Mariangela Sicilia as Adina and Alex Esposito as Dulcamara, who will be engaged in selling elisir<\/i>, i.e. magic potions, in the form of modern-day energy drinks.<\/p>\n PALERMO 11.06.2012 – TEATRO MASSIMO: ELISIR D’AMORE. In a very short time, Damiano Michieletto has come to be recognized worldwide as one of the most brilliant Italian directors of the new generation. He studied opera and theatre production at the Paolo Grassi Academy in Milano and he also got a degree in modern literature at the University of Venice, his hometown. His production of Schwanda the Bagpiper<\/i> by Jarom\u00edr Weinberger, widely acclaimed by the critics at the Wexford Festival in 2003, won him the Irish Times ESB Theatre Award. His other opera productions include L’Italiana in Algeri <\/i>at Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, La Gazza Ladra<\/i> co-produced by Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Comunale in Bologna and Arena in Verona (who brought him the Abbiati Prize in 2008), Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Corsaro, Luisa Miller<\/i> and Poliuto<\/i> in Zurich, Rom\u00e9o et Juliette<\/i> and a Mozart\/Da Ponte cycle at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Die Entf\u00fchrung aus dem Serail<\/i> at San Carlo in Naples, La Scala di Seta<\/i> at Rossini Opera Festival and La Scala in Milano, Il Barbiere di Siviglia<\/i> at the Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Gen\u00e8ve, Madama Butterfly<\/i> in Torino, L’Elisir d’Amore<\/i> in Valencia, Graz and Madrid, The Greek Passion<\/i> by Martin\u016f in Palermo, Cos\u00ec Fan Tutte<\/i> at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, Puccini’s Trittico<\/i> at the Theater an der Wien and the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, Un Ballo in Maschera<\/i> at La Scala, Idomeneo <\/i>at Theater an der Wien, The Rake’s Progress<\/i> at the Leipzig Opernhaus and La Fenice in Venice. In 2012, he made his debut in Salzburg with La Boh\u00e8me<\/i>, to return in 2013 with Falstaff<\/i> and in 2014 with Cenerentola<\/i>. In 2014\/2015, he worked on Il Viaggio a Reims<\/i> <\/strong>at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, Guillaume Tell<\/i> at the Royal Opera House in London, and new stagings of previous productions of Il Barbiere di Siviglia<\/i> and Cos\u00ec Fan Tutte<\/i> at the Op\u00e9ra in Paris and Liceu in Barcelona. <\/p>\n In 2015\/2016, he signed new productions of Mozart’s Il Flauto Magico<\/i> in Venice, Cavalleria Rusticana<\/i> and Pagliacci<\/i> at the Royal Opera House in London (Olivier Award 2016) and Rossini’s Otello <\/i>in Vienna. In Autumn, 2016, two new productions were issued: Samson and Dalila<\/i> at the Op\u00e9ra in Paris, and Aquagranda<\/i> by Perocco at La Fenice in Venice. In 2017, Falstaff<\/i> at La Scala in Milano, Il Viaggio a Reims<\/i> at Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen and Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Il Flauto Magico<\/i> at Opera di Firenze, Idomeneo<\/i> at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. In 2018, he will be working on three, new productions: Die lustige Witwe<\/i> by Leh\u00e1r at La Fenice in Venice, A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream <\/i>by Britten at Theater an der Wien and Don Pasquale<\/i> by Donizetti at the Palais Garnier – Op\u00e9ra de Paris.<\/p>\n Damiano Michieletto is also extremely active in theatre productions, which are as important as operas in his career. Amongst his many endeavours, let us recall a widely praised version of Il Ventaglio<\/i> by Carlo Goldoni, followed by Gogol’s L’Ispettore Generale<\/i> for Teatro Stabile del Veneto, Divinas Palabras<\/i> by Ram\u00f3n Mar\u00eda del Valle-Incl\u00e1n for Piccolo Teatro in Milano and, in 2016, a new production of Brecht and Weill’s L’Opera da Tre Soldi<\/i>, again for Piccolo Teatro in Milano.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sferisterio.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TM-Elisir-damore-2012-FOTO-Lannino-IMG_8680-600x400.jpg\")
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