MARIO PONTIGGIA

Born in Las Flores (Buenos Aires), Mario Pontiggia is both an architect and stage director. He was Director of Production at the Op茅ra de Monte-Carlo, Artistic Director of the 脫pera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and currently serves as Director of the Fundaci贸n Internacional Alfredo Kraus.

He has directed L鈥檌ncoronazione di Poppea, Il ritorno d鈥橴lisse in patria, Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, Giulio Cesare, La grotta di Trofonio, Die Entf眉hrung aus dem Serail, Die Zauberfl枚te, L鈥檌taliana in Algeri, Norma, I puritani, Macbeth, I due Foscari, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata, Un ballo in maschera, Simon Boccanegra, Otello, Tristan und Isolde, Carmen, Les contes d鈥橦offmann, Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci, La boh猫me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Boris Godunov, Ariadne auf Naxos and La voix humaine, among others.

He has staged productions in Buenos Aires and La Plata, in Italy (Cagliari, Florence, Genoa, Messina, Modena, Naples, Palermo, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Rovigo, Sassari, Taormina, Trapani, Treviso, Turin, Venice, Verona), Portugal (Lisbon, Vila Real), Spain (C贸rdoba, Madrid, Oviedo, Santander, Santiago, Seville, Tenerife), Greece (Athens), France (Nice, Sanxay, Toulouse), Switzerland (Geneva, Zurich) and Japan (Hamamatsu, Nagoya, Osaka, Shibuya, Tokyo).

He inaugurated the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco (2000) and the new Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Opera House (2014).