ABOUT ME
Biography
Michele Spotti (1993) has been Musical Director of Marseille’s Opera House and Philharmonic Orchestra since 2023.
After graduating as a violin player, he graduated as a conductor under 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. 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: Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with Die Zauberflöte; Opéra de Paris conducting Turandot; Deutsche Oper Berlin with Il viaggio a Reims; Wiener Staatsoper where he conducted La fille du regiment; Palau de les Arts in Valencia with Ernani; Staatsoper Stuttgart with the new production of Elisir d’amore; Semperoper Dresden with La bohème; Buka Kaikan Tokyo with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Juan Diego Flórez. He opened the 49th edition of Festival della Valle d’Itria with a new production of Il turco in Italia that he conducted at the Opéra de Lausanne. Offenbach’s Barbe-bleue DVD (Opus Arte), recorded at the Opéra de Lyon, was honored with the Diapason D’or award.
Michele Spotti (1993) has been Musical Director of Marseille’s Opera House and Philharmonic Orchestra since 2023.
After graduating as a violin player, he graduated as a conductor under 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. 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: Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with Die Zauberflöte; Opéra de Paris conducting Turandot; Deutsche Oper Berlin with Il viaggio a Reims; Wiener Staatsoper where he conducted La fille du regiment; Palau de les Arts in Valencia with Ernani; Staatsoper Stuttgart with the new production of Elisir d’amore; Semperoper Dresden with La bohème; Buka Kaikan Tokyo with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Juan Diego Flórez. He opened the 49th edition of Festival della Valle d’Itria with a new production of Il turco in Italia that he conducted at the Opéra de Lausanne. Offenbach’s Barbe-bleue DVD (Opus Arte), recorded at the Opéra de Lyon, was honored with the Diapason D’or award.
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, Theater Basel, Teatro Massimo of Palermo, Opéra de Lyon, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Wexford Opera Festival and the Rossini Opera Festival.
Musical Director of the Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento, Michele Spotti also enjoys a busy concerts schedule. Among the others, he has led the Accademia Teatro alla Scala Orchestra (which marked his debut at the Teatro alla Scala in 2021); Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI; National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Orchestre national d’Ile-de-France; Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini; Palermo’s Teatro Massimo orchestra; Teatro Regio Torino’s orchestra.
Among his next engagements (season 2023/24) are Le nozze di Figaro and several symphonic concerts in Marseille, in addition to the debut at Teatro San Carlo in Naples with Simon Boccanegra. Further appointments are Idomeneo and Cenerentola at Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, L’equivoco stravagante at Rossini Opera Festival, as well as numerous symphonic concerts in Europe and Asia.
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, Theater Basel, Teatro Massimo of Palermo, Opéra de Lyon, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Wexford Opera Festival and the Rossini Opera Festival.
Musical Director of the Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento, Michele Spotti also enjoys a busy concerts schedule. Among the others, he has led the Accademia Teatro alla Scala Orchestra (which marked his debut at the Teatro alla Scala in 2021); Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI; National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Orchestre national d’Ile-de-France; Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini; Palermo’s Teatro Massimo orchestra; Teatro Regio Torino’s orchestra.
Among his next engagements (season 2023/24) are Le nozze di Figaro and several symphonic concerts in Marseille, in addition to the debut at Teatro San Carlo in Naples with Simon Boccanegra. Further appointments are Idomeneo and Cenerentola at Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, L’equivoco stravagante at Rossini Opera Festival, as well as numerous symphonic concerts in Europe and Asia.