Michele Spotti

Michele Spotti is the Musical Director of Marseille’s Opera House and Philharmonic Orchestra and has been appointed by the Deutsche Oper Berlin as the next Principal Guest Conductor starting from the 2026/2027 season.

His most recent engagements include returns at the Grand Théâtre de Genève for a new production of L’italiana in Algeri, at the Arena Opera Festival and the Deutsche Oper with Rigoletto, at the Paris Opera with Les Brigands, at Les Arts in Valencia with a new production of the diptych L’heure espagnole/Gianni Schicchi; debuts at Festival Verdi di Parma with Falstaff, Maggio Fiorentino with Norma, San Carlo in Naples with Simon Boccanegra, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with Die Zauberflöte, Wiener Staatsoper with La fille du régiment; Semperoper Dresden with La bohème, Bunka Kaikan Tokyo with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Juan Diego Flórez.

In 2025/2026, in addition to numerous appointments in Marseille – which include Wagner’s Das Rheingold – he also conducts a concert with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne alongside Beatrice Rana and makes his debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York with La traviata. In Summer, he returns to Arena Opera Festival for La traviata and Nabucco.

Engagements for 2026/27 include Die Zauberflote at Bayerische Staatsoper, Lohengrin at the Opéra national du Capitole in Toulouse, L’elisir d’amore at Opernhaus Zürich.

Among his professional partnerships are directors like Robert Wilson, Damiano Michieletto, Barrie Kosky, Laurent Pelly, Pier Luigi Pizzi and institutions such as the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Komische Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Hannover and Stuttgart, Théâtre du Capitole of Toulouse, Theater Basel, Teatro Massimo of Palermo, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Wexford Opera Festival, Rossini Opera Festival, MITO SettembreMusica and Festival della Valle d’Itria. Offenbach’s Barbe-bleue DVD (Opus Arte), recorded at the Opéra de Lyon, was honored with the Diapason D’or award.

Musical Director of the Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento, Michele Spotti also enjoys a busy concerts schedule. Among the others: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI; National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Orchestre national d’Ile-de-France; Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini; Teatro Regio Torino’s orchestra; Orchestra Haydn; Gstaad Festival Orchestra; Nederlands Philharmonisch.

Michele Spotti graduated first in violin and then in orchestral conducting under the guidance of Daniele Agiman at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory in Milan. He then continued his studies at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival Academy, as well as in Italy. At the age of twenty Spotti made his debut conducting Le Nozze di Figaro at Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto. A key moment was his encounter with Alberto Zedda, for whom he became assistant in Rossini’s Ermione at the Opéra de Lyon in 2016.

The French Ministry of Culture has also awarded him the title of “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,” one of the highest honors bestowed upon individuals who distinguish themselves in artistic creation and promotion.