The German-Italian director Giulia Giammona, born in 1995, grew up in Berlin. During her schooldays she studied singing as a young student at the School of Music Hanns Eisler. From 2017 to 2019 she was a staff director at the Bavarian State Opera. There she assisted directors such as Amélie Niermeyer, Romeo Castellucci, La Fura dels Baus, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Christof Loy and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Since 2020 she has studied theatre directing at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
In 2018 she made her directing debut at the Bavarian State Opera with Vanitas by Salvatore Sciarrino and Match by Mauricio Kagel, as part of the company’s Festspiel-Werkstatt. This was followed by a scenic installation about Franz Schubert’s Schwanengesang at the HIDALGO Lied Festival in Munich. Her other productions have included work for the new music festival Cross Roads, the world premiere of the Lithuanian composer Raimonda Žiūkaitė’s short opera Salz ist mein Erbe and A Soldier’s Tale/Renard – a hybrid of works by Igor Stravinsky and Andreas Bäuml, which received its premiere in the Kunstquartier in Salzburg.
In summer 2022 Giulia Giammona staged a children’s version of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Festival’s Opera Camps. In autumn 2022 she directed the world premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’s opera Sycorax for the Bern Opera. In June 2024 she received the Körber Studio’s Young Director’s Award for her production of Leonora Carrington’s Penelope.
