ABOUT ME
Biography
Michele Spotti (1993) is the Musical Director of Marseille’s Opera House and Philharmonic Orchestra.
He graduated first in violin and then in orchestral conducting under the guidance of Daniele Agiman at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory in Milan. He then continued his studies at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival Academy under Neeme Järvi and Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and in Italy under Gianandrea Noseda, Gianluigi Gelmetti, and Daniele Gatti. At the age of twenty Spotti made his debut conducting Le Nozze di Figaro at Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto and in 2016 Alberto Zedda chose him as his assistant for Rossini’s Ermione at the Opéra de Lyon.
His most recent engagements include debuts at: Opéra national de Paris with Turandot; San Carlo di Napoli with Simon Boccanegra; Arena di Verona with Turandot that opened the 101st edition; Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with Die Zauberflöte; Deutsche Oper Berlin with Il viaggio a Reims; Wiener Staatsoper with La fille du régiment; Palau de les Arts in Valencia with Ernani; Semperoper Dresden with La bohème; Bunka Kaikan Tokyo with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Juan Diego Flórez. He also opened the 18th edition of MITO SettembreMusica with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Michele Spotti (1993) is the Musical Director of Marseille’s Opera House and Philharmonic Orchestra.
He graduated first in violin and then in orchestral conducting under the guidance of Daniele Agiman at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory in Milan. He then continued his studies at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival Academy under Neeme Järvi and Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and in Italy under Gianandrea Noseda, Gianluigi Gelmetti, and Daniele Gatti. At the age of twenty Spotti made his debut conducting Le Nozze di Figaro at Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto and in 2016 Alberto Zedda chose him as his assistant for Rossini’s Ermione at the Opéra de Lyon.
His most recent engagements include debuts at: Opéra national de Paris with Turandot; San Carlo di Napoli with Simon Boccanegra; Arena di Verona with Turandot that opened the 101st edition; Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with Die Zauberflöte; Deutsche Oper Berlin with Il viaggio a Reims; Wiener Staatsoper with La fille du régiment; Palau de les Arts in Valencia with Ernani; Semperoper Dresden with La bohème; Bunka Kaikan Tokyo with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Juan Diego Flórez. He also opened the 18th edition of MITO SettembreMusica with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Among his professional partnerships are directors like Robert Wilson, Damiano Michieletto, Barrie Kosky, Laurent Pelly, Pier Luigi Pizzi and institutions such as the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Berlin Komische Oper, Staatsoper Hannover and Stuttgart, Théâtre du Capitole of Tolosa, Theater Basel, Teatro Massimo of Palermo, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Wexford Opera Festival, Rossini Opera Festival and Festival della Valle d’Itria. Offenbach’s Barbe-bleue DVD (Opus Arte), recorded at the Opéra de Lyon, was honored with the Diapason D’or award.
Musical Director of the Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento, Michele Spotti also enjoys a busy concerts schedule. Among the others: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI; National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Orchestre national d’Ile-de-France; Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini; Teatro Regio Torino’s orchestra.
Among his engagements for the 2024/25 season, in addition to numerous appointments in Marseille: several symphony concerts, in Bolzano, Trento, Milano and Rovigo with the Haydn Orchestra and Beatrice Rana, then in Florence, in Basel and at the Tiroler Festspiele; the opera debut at the Maggio Fiorentino with Norma; Rigoletto at the Deutsche Oper; a new production of the diptych L’heure espagnole/Gianni Schicchi at Les Arts in Valencia; the return to the Paris Opera with Les Brigands and to the Arena di Verona with Rigoletto. In May 2026, he will make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York with La Traviata.
Among his professional partnerships are directors like Robert Wilson, Damiano Michieletto, Barrie Kosky, Laurent Pelly, Pier Luigi Pizzi and institutions such as the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Berlin Komische Oper, Staatsoper Hannover and Stuttgart, Théâtre du Capitole of Tolosa, Theater Basel, Teatro Massimo of Palermo, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Wexford Opera Festival, Rossini Opera Festival and Festival della Valle d’Itria. Offenbach’s Barbe-bleue DVD (Opus Arte), recorded at the Opéra de Lyon, was honored with the Diapason D’or award.
Musical Director of the Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento, Michele Spotti also enjoys a busy concerts schedule. Among the others: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI; National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Orchestre national d’Ile-de-France; Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini; Teatro Regio Torino’s orchestra.
Among his engagements for the 2024/25 season, in addition to numerous appointments in Marseille: several symphony concerts, in Bolzano, Trento, Milano and Rovigo with the Haydn Orchestra and Beatrice Rana, then in Florence, in Basel and at the Tiroler Festspiele; the opera debut at the Maggio Fiorentino with Norma; Rigoletto at the Deutsche Oper; a new production of the diptych L’heure espagnole/Gianni Schicchi at Les Arts in Valencia; the return to the Paris Opera with Les Brigands and to the Arena di Verona with Rigoletto. In May 2026, he will make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York with La Traviata.