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Calixto Bieito Director
© Enrique Moreno Esquibel
Biography
After serving as artist in residence at Theater Basel and as director of the Teatre Romea in Barcelona, the International Arts Festival of Castilla y León, and the Barcelona International Theatre, Calixto Bieito has been artistic director of the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao since 2017.
Since the early 2000s, he has focused on opera directing while continuing to work in the theatre. His previous productions include Carmen and Tristan and Isolde in Vienna; Rudi Stephan’s Die ersten Menschen and Julius Caesar in Egypt in Amsterdam; War and Peace in Geneva; Káťa Kabanová in Prague; Eliogabalo in Zurich; Maometto II in Naples; Hèctor Parra’s Orgia in Barcelona; Aida in Berlin; Kurt Weill’s Der Silbersee in Mannheim; Les Troyens in Nuremberg; Moses und Aron and Le Grand Macabre in Dresden; Carmina Burana in Hamburg; Khovanshchina in Geneva; The Prisoner / Suor Angelica in Rome; and Jenůfa in Prague.
During the 2025–2026 season, he will notably direct productions of Idomeneo in Prague and The Greek Passion in Mannheim.
At the Paris Opera: Lear, 2016; Carmen, 2017; Simon Boccanegra, 2018; The Exterminating Angel, 2024; Das Rheingold, 2025; Die Walküre, 2025; Siegfried, 2026
