A LESSIO P I Z Z E C H – Stage Director Alessio Pizzech, born in Livorno (Tuscany) in 1972, is a all-round showman. He studied singing as a child, he worked in a circus up to age of 18, then he dedicated himself to stage direction, becoming in a very short time one of the most acclaimed Italian emerging directors. With terrific energy he has staged about 150 prose and productions, collaborating with all the leading Italian theaters and festivals. Devoted to the staging of opera since 1997, he is a regular guest of some among the most important opera houses and festival, in Italy and also abroad, including Teatro la Fenice di Venezia, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino – Opera di Firenze, Teatro Regio di Torino, Festival della Valle d’Itria Martina Franca, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Teatro Alighieri di Ravenna, Teatro del Giglio di Lucca, Teatro Comunale di Modena, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Teatro Verdi di Pisa, Teatro Lirico di Spoleto, Sawakami Opera Foundation Japan, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Slovenja National Theatre of Maribor, Conservatory of Stavanger in Norway, Oslo Festival. The stunning list of all his opera productions includes: Le Pauvre Matelot by Darius Milhaud (1997); Gianni Schicchi (1998); Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini (1999); La sonnambula , Le nozze di Figaro , Rigoletto (2000); Poulenc’s La Voix humaine (piano version), Tosca , La bohème , Paisiello’s La Daunia Felice (2001); I Pagliacci , , Si by Mascagni (2002); Trois Opéras Minutes by Milhaud , Il Marinaio by A. Russo, Vivaldi’s Tito Manlio , Der Kaiser von Atlantis by V. Ullmann (2003): Mascagni’s Pinotta , La serva scaltra , La contadina , Il Tutore by A. Hasse (2004); Don Giovanni Tenorio by G. Gazzaniga (2005); Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater (staged), Benjamin Britten’s The Little Sweep , La Dirindina by Domenico Scarlatti, La Voix humaine – orchestra version (2006); Gounod’s Faust , Marcella by Umberto Giordano, Mascagni’s , Pimpinone by T. Albinoni, L'elisir d’amore , Pagine d’Amore from Mascagni, Ode a Leopardi and by Mascagni, Stravinskij’s Histoire du soldat and Brundibar by H. Krasa (2007); La Cenerentola , Carmen (2008); Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny (2009); Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci (2010); Händel’s Giulio Cesare (2011); Medea by G. Benda, Chi rapì la Topina Costanza by R. Vacca, Rigoletto (2012); Così fan tutte , La Gatta Bianca by S. Conte (2013); Carmen , Il Viaggio di Roberto by P. Marzocchi (2014); Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2015). He is a stage director since 1991. Among his many theatre productions, we can mention, for the outstanding success of critics and public, Per non morire di mafia and Dopo il silenzio (both staging of books by Piero Grasso, Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor and important politician), and La carne del marmo , a play about Michelangelo Buonarroti with Alessio Boni. He currently teaches acting at the National Academy of Ancient Drama of Siracusa. LATEST PRODUCTIONS : Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci in Japan (Osaka and Kansai), on tour with Teatro di Livorno; Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at Teatro Regio di Torino; La traviata in the theaters of Treviso, Ferrara, Rovigo and at Teatro Politeama Greco in Lecce; Il Viaggio di Roberto by Paolo Marzocchi at Opera di Firenze;; Turandot at Japan Opera Festival; Ehi Giò by Vittorio Montalti (world premiere for the Progetto Opera Nova 2016) at Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto; Pietro Antonio Cesti’s Le nozze in sogno at Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and at Mozarteum in Salzburg; Rigoletto at Festival Verdi in Busseto. FORTHCOMING PROJECTS : Armida in Eisenstadt (Germany); Marzocchi’s Il viaggio di Roberto, un viaggio verso Auschwitz in Ravenna, Ferrara and Parma; Il re pastore at La Fenice in Venice (Teatro Malibran); Rigoletto at Teatro Comunale di Bologna and on tour in Japan with Comunale di Bologna; world premiere of a new opera by Silvia Colasanti at Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca.

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