Davide Livermore

Davide Livermore was born in Turin and is currently director of the Teatro Nazionale in Genoa. He has a longstanding relationship with La Scala, Milan, where he directed the opening production of every season from 2018 to 2022. Alongside his work as a director, he is also an actor, lecturer, scriptwriter, choreographer, set and costume designer, camera man and singer. He has worked with artistic personalities such as Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Zubin Mehta, Mirella Freni, Luca Ronconi, Zhang Yimou, Riccardo Chailly and Fabio Biondi.

His engagements as a director have taken him to renowned theatres and leading festivals throughout Europe, and to the USA, South America, Australia, Japan, Russia and Oman.

From 2015 to 2017 he was artistic director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, where he led the Centre de Perfeccionament training programme, and directed productions of La bohème, Otello and La forza del destino. For the latter, he was awarded the Premios Líricos Teatro Campoamor. In 2018 he won the Prix de la Critique de L’Europe Francophone for his production of Adriana Lecouvreur at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.

Between 2019 and 2022 he directed Euripides’ Helen and Aeschylus’ Oresteia for the Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse. In 2023 he was awarded the Eschilo d’oro for this work.

His recent productions have included Turandot at La Scala, Don Carlo and Giulio Cesare in Monte Carlo, Schiller’s Maria Stuart and Paolo Villaggio’s Fantozzi. Una tragedia in Genoa and Don Carlo at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.

In the 2024/25 season he directed Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw in Genoa, both in a spoken-theatre version and in Benjamin Britten’s operatic adaptation. Since 2025 he has been working on a new production of Wagner’s Ring in Monte Carlo.

In 2024 together with Paolo Gep Cucco he wrote and directed the film The Opera! — Arie per un’eclissi, which was shown at the Festa del Cinema di Roma. In the same year he directed the Mozart pasticcio Une folle journée at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival.

In 2025 he conceived the theatre project D’oro — Il sesto senso partigiano to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Italy; it was performed on 25 April in a production by Giorgina Pi in the presence of the Italian president Sergio Mattarella.

He has also worked as a director, scriptwriter and actor for the broadcaster Radiotelevisione Svizzera and until 2019 was the artistic director of the production company Prodea Group. In 2019 he created The Best FIFA Football Awards gala for the company Balich Worldwide Shows, which was watched by more than 700 million viewers worldwide.

In 2016 Davide Livermore was named an Ufficiale dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia. In 2024 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Turin.