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The Italian baritone, actor and director of opera and theatre Luca Micheletti He is considered one of the most esteemed and versatile artists of his generation. In the 2025/26 season, he will perform Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at La Scala, Escamillo in Carmen at the Teatro Real in Madrid, the title role in Macbeth at the Teatro Regio in Turin, the title role in Don Giovanni at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan under the baton of Riccardo Muti, and Marcello in La bohème at the Royal Ballet and Opera in London. In the same season, he will also direct Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro La Fenice.
Micheletti has sung on the most important international stages, including La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Ballet and Opera of London, the Sydney Opera House, the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Rome Opera, La Fenice, the Arena di Verona, the Teatro Regio of Turin, the Teatro Regio of Parma, the Teatro Massimo of Palermo, the Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa, the Ravenna Festival, the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari, as well as the theaters of Piacenza, Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Throughout his career he has collaborated with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniele Gatti, Fabio Luisi, Daniel Harding, Marco Armiliato, Daniel Oren, Daniele Callegari, Julia Jones, Renato Palumbo, Bertrand de Billy, Antonino Fogliani, Pablo Heras-Casado, Francesco Ivan Ciampa and Eun Sun Kim, taking part in productions by, among others, Giorgio Strehler, Franco Zeffirelli, Luca Ronconi, David McVicar, Chiara Muti, Davide Livermore, Hugo de Ana, Cristina Mazzavillani, Arnaud Bernard, Francesco Micheli, Andrea De Rosa, Karin Henkel and Sláva Daubnerová.
As a director, Micheletti has created major productions in both theater and opera. Recent works include Sophocles' Ajax, Bizet's Carmen, Scenes from Schumann's Faust, The Merry Widow, Trouble in Tahiti, and the world premiere of Colasanti's Sinbad's Last Voyage.
Alongside her artistic career, she earned degrees in Literature and Performing Arts (from Milan and Venice) and a PhD in Italian Studies from La Sapienza University of Rome. For her theatrical career, she has received some of the most prestigious Italian awards, including the Ubu, Internazionale Pirandello, and Franco Enriquez Prizes.
