(Credit: Marco Borrelli) Famed conductor Michele Spotti has been appointed “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture. Spotti is the Music Director of the Ópera and Philharmonic Orchestra of Marseille since 2023. “I have just learned that the French Ministry of Culture has appointed me Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,” {…}
The Opéra de Marseille has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera Verdi’s “Falstaff” will be showcased in a production by Denis Podalydès and conducted by Michele Spotti. Salomé Jicia, Hélène Carpentier, Teresa Iervolino, Giulio Mastrototaro, Alberto Robert, and Florian Sempey star. Performance Dates: Nov. 9-15, 2025 Alessandro Cadario conducts Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” with Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau directing. The production will {…}
(Photo Credit; Marco Borrelli) The talented conductor, Michele Spotti, made his debut at Les Arts conducting “Ernani” on June 7th. Spotti was also recently named Music Director of the Marseille opera and orchestra, at the young age of 29. He discovered music at the age of three because his grandmother, a musician, told him musical tales. He is married to {…}
(Photo Credit: Miguel Lorenzo/Mikel Ponce) Valencia closed its 2022-23 season with Verdi’s “Ernani.” The success of their proposal relied on a strong cast, a non-provocative production, and the ardent labour of the young Italian conductor Michele Spotti in the pit. The production, directed by Andrea Bernard, was a co-production with Teatro La Fenice in Venice. The stage simulated a landscape {…}
(Credit: Marco Spotti) Italian conductor Michele Spotti has been nominated as Music Director of Marseille’s Opera House and Philharmonic Orchestra. Marseille’s Mayor Benoît Payan and the General Manager of the Opéra de Marseille Maurice Xiberras announced the news and noted that Spotti will start in his new role during the 2023-24 season, succeeding the current Musical Director, Lawrence Foster. The {…}
The Festival della Valle D’Itria in Martina Franca has announced a conductor change for “Beatrice di Tenda” The company noted that Fabio Luisi has tested positive for COVID-19 and will therefore not be able to conduct the Bellini work. As a result, Michele Spotti will conduct the opera on July 23 and 25, 2022 at the Palazzo Ducale. Spotti is {…}
(Photo: Amati Bacciadi) Rossini’s setting of “Il Signor Bruschino” to a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa was the last of five one act farces Rossini wrote for Venice’s Teatro di San Moise between 1810 and 1813, and apart from “Adina” written for Lisbon in 1818, and to which he gave only cursory attention, it was a form to which he {…}
Michele Spotti is set to return to the Rossini Opera Festival for the fourth year in a row. The conductor will lead the company’s autumn production of Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.” Performances of the iconic Rossini comedy are scheduled for Nov. 25, 27, and 29 and will star Juan Francisco Gatell, Carlo Lepore, Aya Wakizono, Iurii Samoilov, Michele Pertusi, Elena {…}