Marco Arturo Marelli - Director
Biography
Marco Arturo Marelli was born in Zurich and completed his artistic education in his hometown. Several engagements followed as assistant in Vienna, Salzburg and with the State Opera in Hamburg, where he then made his debut as stage director.
Following engagements and productions include the Hamburgische Staatsoper (Falstaff, Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Der fliegende Holländer, Radamisto and Rosenkavalier), the Wiener Staatsoper (Schweigsame Frau, Gianni Schicchi, La Sonnambula, Zauberflöte, Cardillac, Falstaff, Capriccio, Medea), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Pélléas et Mélisande and Ägyptische Helena), the Dresdner Semperoper (Tristan und Isolde, Capriccio, Ariadne auf Naxos), the Opéra de Paris, the Théâtre du Chatelet, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London as well as the opera companies of Tokyo, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Zurich, Madrid, Barcelona, Cologne, Graz, Stasbourg and Bonn.
In addition to the baroque repertoire and the Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Richard Strauss and Puccini operas, Marco Arturo Marelli has also directed an interesting amount of modern and contemporary works such as Ligeti's Le grand macabre (Zurich), Henze's Prinz von Homburg (Cologne), Hindemith's Cardillac (State Opera Vienna), Schoenberg’s Jakobsleiter (Staatsoper Wien) and the world premieres of Aribert Reimann’s Medea (Vienna), Matthias Pintscher's Thomas Chatterton (Dresden) as well as Hans-Jürgen von Bose's Die Leiden des jungen Werhers (Hamburg).
Marco Arturo Marelli has been especially acclaimed for his directing rediscovery of formerly forgotten operas such as Amadis by J.Chr. Bach (Hamburg), Semele and Radamisto by G.F. Händel (Ludwigsburg Festival), Des Teufels Lustschloss by Franz Schubert (Zurich/Vienna Festival) and Le vin herbé by Frank Martin (Zurich).
He has been working with such renowned conductors as Sir Roger Norrington, Christoph von Dohnànyi, Philippe Jordan, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Marc Albrecht, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Gielen, Lothar Zagrosek, Gerd Albrecht, Franz Welser-Möst, Fabio Luisi and Michael Boder.
Marco Arturo Marelli's next projects include new productions in Copenhagen, Berlin, Helsinki and Paris.
Last updated: 29.07.2010© We kindly ask you to seek our approval for any alteration or abbreviation of the biography. Thank you for your kind understanding.