EMILIO
LÓPEZ

director

BIOGRAPHY

He was born in Valencia in 1982. He began studyingflute at the age of 12 at the Professional Conservatoryof Valencia. In 2003, he completed his musicaltraining by studying singing at the Conservatorio JoséIturbi in Valencia. In 2006 he began working as astage manager at the Palau de les Arts, andsubsequently began his career as Assistant Directorand Co-Director under the direction of renowneddirectors such as Pier’Alli, Jonathan Miller, DanielSlater, Emilio Sagi, La Fura dels Baus, FranciscoNegrín, Werner Herzog, Mariusz. Trelinski. Giancarlodel Monaco, Damiano Michieletto, Stefen Medcalf,Gerardo Vera, Carlos Saura, Graham Vick, DavidMcVicar, Robert Lepage, among others.

He worked in Spain and in other European theatres of international renown such as Maggio MusicaleFiorentino, Opera Bordeaux, Opera Toulouse, Opera di Roma, Teatro Real, Gran Teatre del Liceu,Teatro de la Zaruela, Palau de les Arts…

He worked with conductors like Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev, Riccardo Chailly, OttavioDantone, Patrick Fourniller, Alberto Zedda, Omer Meir Wellber, Plácido Domingo, Thomas Netopil,Juan Luis Martínez, José Miguel Pérez-Sierra, Sergio Alapont, Marco Guidarini, Jan Latham-Koenig,Federico Maria Sardelli, Fabio Biondi, Roberto Abbado, Giacomo Sagripanti, among others.

He worked with singers like Plácido Domingo, Paata Burchuladze, Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, MariaGuleghina, Jonas Kauffmann, Violeta Urmana, Alexia Voulgaridou, Marcello Giordani, AlexanderTsymbalyuk, Orlin Anastassov, Marcello Giordani, Carlos Álvarez, Venteslav Anastasov, EricHalfvarson, Angela Marambio, Olga Peretyako, Nancy Gustafson, Richard Marginson, Peter Seiffert,Stephen Milling, Matti Salminen, Juha Uusitalo, Jennifer Wilson, Anna Larsson, Christa Mayer, Jorgede León, Oksana Dyka, Simón Orfila, Daniela Barcellona, Hui He, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitry Korchak,Ivan Magri, Erwin Schrott, Nikolai Schukoff, Paolo Fanale, Aquiles Machado, Celso Albelo, MariaAgresta, Gregory Kunde, Angela Meade, Virginia Tola, Clementine Margaine, Stephen Costello….among others.

In February 2017, as Stage Director he premiered the zarzuela La Malquerida, by Mº Penella at the Teatrosdel Canal in Madrid; in June of the same year he conducted the opera Píramo e Tisbe at the Palau de Arts in Valencia with the musical director Fabio Biondi; in October 2017 he conducted a new production for the Palau de les Arts of the opera Madama Butterfly and in November 2017 he directed a new staging of theopera Turandot at the Teatro Cervantes in Málaga.

In 2018, he collaborated again with Albert Boadella during the world premiere of the opera “El Pintor” at theTeatros del Canal in Madrid, together with Dmitry Bertman in the opera Demon at the Gran Teatre delLiceu in Barcelona. He directed the zarzuela “La Malquerida” at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo and theopera Norma, produced by Davide Livermore at the Palacio Euskalduna during the ABAO season in Bilbao.

Among his latest projects are the collaboration with Emilio Sagi with the opera “Rigoletto” and “LucreziaBorgia”, the direction of the zarzuela La Malquerida at the Palau de les Arts, the direction of his productionof Madama Butterfly at the Kursaal and San Lorenzo del Escorial and Palau de les Arts, the collaborationwith Carlos Saura in the opera “Don Giovanni”, the play “El reflejo” and the zarzuela “La verbena de laPaloma” at the Festival de A Coruña. The collaboration of the opera Norma at the Teatro Real with JustinWay, the collaboration at the Teatro Real of the opera “El Ángel de fuego”, a production by Calixto Bieito,the collaboration of the operas “La Boheme” and “Giovanna d’arco” at the Teatro Real, and the collaboration of the opera “La Boheme” and “Giovanna d’arco” at the Teatro Real.

“Giovanna d’arco” at the Rome Opera and “Jeanne d’arco au bucher” with Allex Ollé of La Fura dels Baus.

At the end of 2022 he was stage director of the opera Norma for the Festival de A Coruña in a new staging,the revival of La Boheme at the Palau de les Arts, and in 2023 he has just been stage collaborator at the GranTeatre del Liceu with Jaume Plensa in a new production of Macbeth.

His future projects as Stage Director during 2024 include:-Mahagonny songspiel” and Kurt Weill’s “7 deadly sins” for the network of theatres of the Comunidad deMadrid within the festival “Ópera en minúsculas” in July 2024.- The opera “La Traviata” in June 2024 as part of the Open Air Tarragona Festival in the Camp de Mart.- The opera “Carmen” as part of the San Sebastian Musical Fortnight festival, Kursaal auditorium, in August 2024.- The opera “Anna Bolena” as part of the Oviedo opera season.- The opera “Madama Butterfly” in the opera season of the Teatro Cervantes in Malaga in November 2024.- The opera Turandot at the Teatro de la Maestranza in November 2024.

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