Jacopo Spirei Explained

Jacopo Spirei
Birth Place:Florence
Occupation:Opera stage director

Jacopo Spirei (born 1974) is an Italian opera stage director. He is the winner of the audience prize in Salzburg for best production of the season 2012/2013 at the Salzburger Landestheater.

Biography

Born in Rome raised in Florence, after classical studies Spirei studied arts and drama in Bologna and filmmaking in New York City at the New York Film Academy.

He started working in opera as a voluntary assistant director in Italy with and Talmage Fauntleroy.

He then moved to London to work with John Copley and Robert Chevara at the Royal College of Music, before becoming assistant to the internationally renowned and innovative opera director Graham Vick with whom he has worked for over 12 years.[1]

Within this period, he helped staging several operas at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, at the Birmingham Opera Company (included the first-ever staging of the Mittwoch aus Licht by Stockhausen), at the Houston Grand Opera, at the Bregenzer Festspiele, at the New National Theater in Tokyo, at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon for the entire cycle of the Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner.

His official debut as opera stage director took place in 1994 in Cortona where he directed La finta giardiniera by Mozart.

Spirei started his independent activity in 2000 with the revival direction of Vick's production Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal Albert Hall in London and in Glyndebourne, and then Vick's landmark Eugene Onegin in 2008.

He then worked both as an associate and revival director at Glyndebourne until 2014.

Since then, he has been working both in Italy and all over the world.

Between 2006 and 2011 he was artistic director and founder of Spurio, an experimental project involving opera, filmmaking, video art and live performance, that culminated in the production of a feature film based on the myth of Orpheus with live music composed by Davide Fensi.

He currently has a long-time collaboration with the Opera Academy of the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen for which he has directed scenes and short works like: L'heure espagnole, Turn of the screw, Jules Massenet’s Manon, Dialogues des Carmelites, La bohème, Wozzeck.

He has also worked with the young singers of the Accademia della Scala and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Spirei is professor for opera1[2] at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts KhiO, Norway.

Recognitions

In 2012/2013 he's won the Audience prize in Salzburg for best production of the season.

Opera productions

References

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  19. Web site: Don Giovanni. 2020-08-04. sfopera.com.
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  28. Web site: Salzburger Landestheater – Così fan tutte. 2020-08-04. www.salzburger-landestheater.at.
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