Born in Venice, Damiano Michieletto he made his international debut at the Wexford Opera Festival in 2003 with a highly-acclaimed production of Weinberger’s Svanda Dudák, named Opera Production of the Year by the Irish Times.

Current and future plans include: Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Geneva; Madama Butterfly at Turin’s Teatro Regio;Elisir d’Amore in Valencia; The Greek Passion in Palermo; Così fan tutte at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; a Mozart’s/Da Ponte cycle at Teatro La Fenice in Venice; La Bohème at the 2012 Salzburg Festival with Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala; Il Trittico a co-production of the Theater an der Wien and Danish National Opera; Un Ballo in Maschera at La Scala in Milan with Sondra Radvanovsky and Placido Domingo; Elisir d’Amore in Madrid; Falstaff in Amsterdam; Norma at the Opéra Bastille Paris; and Così fan tutte at Barcelona’s Liceu.

In recent seasons Damiano Michiello has creaded L’Italiana in Algeri at Vicenza’s Teatro Olimpico; La Gazza Ladra for the Rossini Opera Festival – a coproduction with with Bologna’s Teatro Comunale; Rota’s Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze for Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice; Daugherty’s Jackie O’ for the Lugo Opera Festival; Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Corsaro and Luisa Miller for Opernhaus Zurich; Roméo et Juliette for Teatro La Fenice; Entführung aus dem Serail at Naples Teatro San Carlo; La Scala di Seta for the Rossini Opera Festival;Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; and Falstaff for the English Touring Opera.

Recent DVD releases include Jackie O, La Scala di seta and La Gazza Ladra.