Franco Ripa di Meana

In 1984 he made his debut as an actor with the  La  Gaia Scienza theatre company at the Venice Biennale, directed by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti.  He left the company to work as a staff director, first at the Teatro la Scalain Milan (1987 to 1989), then in many of the leading italian and european opera houses and theatres.  From 1990 to 2000 he collaborated with Luca Ronconi and  with Graham Vick, taking responsability for reviving  many of their productions. As a director in his own right  he made his italian  debut at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 1991, with the chamber opera  Le Notti Bianche  by Franco Mannino. He made his wider european debut  at Wexford Festival Opera in 1998 with “La Fiamma” by Ottorino Respighi. Since then he has staged about fourty operas, including works by con