Opera

My name is Matteo Marziano Graziano and I am an opera stage director.
I was born in Turin, Italy in 1984.
At the age of 9, my grandmother brought me to see Madama Butterfly.
And that’s how it all started.

As opera director, assistant stage director and opera choreographer,
I have worked internationally in the following productions

• 2024 | Verdi | RIGOLETTO | Director and Choreographer | Teatro Fraschini di Pavia & circuito OperaLombardia

• 2024 | Verdi | NABUCCO | Revival Director | Deutsche Oper Berlin

• 2024 | Adams | NIXON IN CHINA | Assistant Director to Hauen und Stechen | Deutsche Oper Berlin

• 2024 | R. Strauss | INTERMEZZO | Assistant Director to Tobias Kratzer | Deutsche Oper Berlin

• 2024 | Verdi | AIDA | Revival Director | Staatsoper Hannover

• 2023 | Giordano | ANDREA CHENIÉR | Assistant Director to Rodula Gaitanou | Festspiele Theater St Gallen

• 2023 | Bach | MATTHÄUS-PASSION | Assistant Director to Benedikt von Peter | Deutsche Oper Berlin

• 2022 | Wagner | TANNHÄUSER | Choreographer | Opera Wuppertal

• 2018 | Berio (Folk Songs) & Hertz | WE CAN BE WAVES | Director and Choreographer | Macerata Opera Festival

• 2017 | Rossini | MAOMETTO II | Co-director and Choreographer | Rossini in Wildbad Opera Festival

• 2017 | Rossini | L'OCCASIONE FA IL LADRO | Choreographer | Rossini in Wildbad Opera Festival

• 2015 | Verdi | UN BALLO IN MASCHERA | Choreographer | Volkstheater Rostock

• 2015 | R. Strauss | THE SILENT LADY | Choreographer | Aalto Theater Essen

• 2013 | Rossini | GUILLAUME TELL | Choreographer | Rossini in Wildbad Opera Festival

• 2013 | Adams | LE CHALET | Choreographer | Rossini in Wildbad Opera Festival

• 2012 | Stockhausen | TIERKREIS | Director and Choreographer | Dansmakers Amsterdam

• 2010 | Tchaikovsky | EUGENE ONIEGIN | Assistant to the Choreography | The National Opera Amsterdam

I had the pleasure to collaborate with opera directors Stefan Herheim, Benedikt von Peter, and Rodula Gaitanou.

I treasure the collaboration with opera conductors M° Mariss Jansons, M° Antonino Fogliani,
M° Jacopo Brusa and M° Gianluigi Gelmetti, .

I have staged and choreographed internationally acclaimed soloists such as tenors Michael Spyres and Jorge Puerta,
bass Lorenzo Regazzo, and soprano Elisa Balbo. 

ANDREA CHENIÉR, Umberto Giordano
Director: Rodula Gaitanou
Conductor: Modestas Pitrenas
Assistant to the Director: Matteo Marziano Graziano
CAST: Jorge Puerta, Alexey Bogdanchikov / Daniel Mirosław, Ewa Vesin / Sylvia D'Eramo, Mack Wolz, Małgorzata Walewska, Äneas Humm, Kristján Jóhannesson.
Open Air Festspiele Theater St Gallen, Switzerland

ST MATTHEW PASSION, Johann Sebastian Bach
Director: Benedikt von Peter
Conductor: Alessandro De Marchi
Assistant to the Director: Matteo Marziano Graziano
CAST: Joshua Ellicott, Padraic Rowan, Joel Allison, Kieran Carrel, Daniel Nicholson / Michael Bachtadze, Artur Garbas, Siobhan Stagg, Annika Schlicht and Mina Christ.
Deutsche Oper Berlin

Matteo Marziano Graziano | OPERA BASE Profile