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German-Italian stage director Giulia Giammona received her musical training as a junior student at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin and studied directing at the Thomas Bernhard Institute of the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
Her first directing projects include Vanitas by Salvatore Sciarrino and Match by Mauricio Kagel, both created at the Bavarian State Opera, where she worked as a staff director. These were followed by a staged installation based on Franz Schubert’s Schwanengesang at the Munich Hidalgo Festival, the world premiere of the short opera Salz ist mein Erbe by the Lithuanian composer Raimonda Žiūkaitė, and The Soldier’s Tale / Renard by Igor Stravinsky at Kunstquartier Salzburg.
Since 2022, she has collaborated regularly with the Salzburg Festival. She first directed the Festival’s Opera Camp with a children’s adaptation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and subsequently staged Maurice Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges and Carl Orff’s Die Kluge in the following seasons. In the same year, she directed the world premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’s opera Sycorax at Bühnen Bern.
In 2024, she received the Jury Prize of the Körber Studio Junge Regie at Hamburg’s Thalia Theater for her production of Penelope after Leonora Carrington. The production was subsequently invited to Festival Premières at Maillon Théâtre in Strasbourg.
She also works as an artistic collaborator on productions by Romeo Castellucci, including Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande at Teatro alla Scala.
Her most recent work includes Träume – Eine Nacht im Elfenwald for the Kinderopernhaus at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, productions at Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Staatstheater Meiningen and the Tiroler Festspiele Erl, as well as the world premiere of Anna A. by Silvia Colasanti at Teatro alla Scala. In the 2026/27 season, she will direct productions at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Haydn Foundation Bolzano and the Opéra de Lille. In 2026, she was awarded the Götz Friedrich Prize for her production of Paul Hindemith’s Cardillac at Staatstheater Meiningen.
