Daniele Abbado
A director and artistic director, he studied directing at the Piccolo Teatro School in Milan and graduated in Philosophy from the University of Pavia. He began working as a director in 1988, staging shows in major national and international theatres. Among his first productions Aleksandr Nevskij Video at Konzerthaus Wien and RomaEuropa Festival, Golem with Moni Ovadia in Milan, Berlin, Rome, Paris, New York. He devoted himself to Mozart's musical theatre with several staging of Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte, up to an important production of Die Zauberflöte in Reggio Emilia, Ferrara, Baden Baden and at the Edinburgh Festival.
Among his most significant opera productions are Don Carlo (Wiener Staatsoper), Nabucco (Teatro alla Scala, Covent Garden London, Teatro Liceu Barcelona), Pelléas et Melisande (Florence), Falstaff (Cagliari, Turin), Rigoletto (Rome), Butterfly (Bari, Venice, Beijng), Trovatore (Wiener StaatsOper), Macbeth (Festival Verdi Parma).
He has devoted particular attention to the staging of 20th century musical theatre titles, directing Wozzeck (Rome), Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Palermo, Granada), The Rape of Lucretia (Genoa, Florence, Seville, Teatro Real in Madrid), Midsummer night's dream (Bari, Reggio Emilia). His staging of Luigi Dallapiccola's Il prigioniero and Il volo di notte, produced by the Maggio Musicale in Florence, won the Abbiati Prize as best performance in 2004.
In 2002, he was appointed artistic director of the Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, a position he held until 2012. In the same year, he received the International Opera Award as Best Director.
His most recent productions are Turandot with the finale by Luciano Berio at Torre del Lago, Majakovsky at the Franco Parenti Theatre in Milan and Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen with stage music by Edvard Grieg, produced by Teatro Due in Parma.
In 2024, productions of Simone Boccanegra at the Teatro alla Scala, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Brecht-Weill's Die sieben todsünden at the Comunale in Bologna, and the diptych composed of Luigi Nono's La fabbrica illuminata and Arnold Schönberg's Erwartung at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice will make their debut.
