“Hijo predilecto”of his hometown, Oviedo, he holds a PhD in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Oviedo and studied musicology at the University of London.

He made his debut as a Stage Director in Oviedo in 1980 with Verdi’s “La Traviata”. Ten years later, in December 1990, he was appointed Director of the Teatro de la Zarzuela, a position he held until December 1999. He made his debut as Stage Director at this theatre in 1982 with Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale”, which was followed by more than twenty Opera and Zarzuela productions.

He was Artistic Director of the Teatro Real in Madrid from June 2001 to August 2005 and of the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao from January 2008 to December 2015.

His stage experience ranges from Baroque Zarzuela to Contemporary Opera, which he has directed in some of the most prestigious theaters and festivals, both Spanish and foreign: Teatro Comunal in Bologna, La Fenice in Venice, Scala in Milan, Comunal in Florence, Carlo Felice in Genoa, Massimo in Palermo, Sao Carlos in Lisbon, Odeón, Chatelet and Marigny in Paris, Opera in Rome, Opera in Dusseldorf, Opera in Los Angeles, Opera in Washington, Opera in San Francisco, Opera in San Diego, Opera in Philadelphia, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Teatros Avenida, Maipo and Colón in Buenos Aires, Municipal in Santiago de Chile, Mayor Julio Santo Domingo in Bogotá, VolksOper and An der Wien in Vienna, Israel Opera in Tel-Aviv, Manaus Opera, Geneva Opera, Saint Gallen Opera, Monte-Carlo Opera, Strasbourg Opera, Bordeaux Opera, Nice Opera, Capitole de Toulouse, Lausanne Opera, Royal Opera de Wallonie in Liège, Nissei, Bunka Kaikan and New National Theatre in Tokyo, Mariinsky in St. Petersburg, Jiangsu Centre for the Performing Arts in Nanjing, Osaka Arts Festival, Salzburg, Osaka, Savolinna, Ravenna and Pesaro Festivals, Hong Kong Opera, Maestranza in Seville, Campoamor in Oviedo, Arriaga and Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao, Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Liceu in Barcelona, ​​Zarzuela and Real in Madrid.

In June 2006 he received the Lírico Teatro Campoamor Award for best stage direction for his production of “The Barber of Seville” staged in January 2005 at the Teatro Real; in May 2010 he received the award for best Spanish artist from the prestigious lyrical magazine “Ópera Actual”, the Argentine music critics’ award for the best show of 2012 for the staging of “I Due Figaro” at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and in December 2020 the Government of Spain awarded him the Gold Medal of Fine Arts.

His next engagements will take him to the Carlo Felice in Genoa, San Francisco Opera, Colón in Buenos Aires, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Municipal in Santiago de Chile, Hong Kong Opera, Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela and Real in Madrid and Campoamor in Oviedo.

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