The German-Italian director Giulia Giammona received her musical training as a junior student at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, and subsequently completed a degree in directing at the Thomas Bernhard Institute of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.
From 2017 to 2019 she was a staff director at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where she had her first directing experiences with Salvatore Sciarrino’s Vanitas and Mauricio Kagel’s Match. She went on to direct a staged version of Franz Schubert’s Schwanengesang at the Hidalgo Festival in Munich, and the world premiere of the Lithuanian composer Raimonda Žiūkaitė’s short opera Salz ist mein Erbe and L’Histoire du Soldat / Renard (with music by Igor Stravinsky and Andreas Bäuml) at the Theater im Kunstquartier in Salzburg.
In 2022 Giulia Giammona developed a children’s version of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte for the Salzburg Festival’s Opera Camps. She returned to the Festival with productions of Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges and Orff’s Die Kluge. In 2022 she directed the world premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’s opera Sycorax at the Bühnen Bern.
In 2024 she received the Jury Prize of the Körber Studio Junge Regie in Hamburg for her production of Leonora Carrington’s Penelope, which was subsequently invited to the Festival Premières at the Théâtre Le Maillon in Strasbourg.
As an artistic collaborator she works regularly on Romeo Castellucci’s productions, most recently on Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala, Milan.
Her recent work includes Träume — eine Nacht im Elfenwald at the children’s opera house of the Berlin State Opera, Judith at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden, the family concert Applaus für die Gebrüder Strauss! at the Tyrolean Festival Erl and the world premiere of Silvia Colasanti’s Anna A. at La Scala.
Her directing work in the 2026/27 season will include returns to the Berlin Opera, the Haydn Foundation in Bolzano and the Opéra de Lille. In 2026, she was awarded the Götz Friedrich Prize for her production of Paul Hindemith’s Cardillac at the State Theatre in Meiningen.
