In search of a rigorous aesthetic and conceptual unity for a theater founded on all the arts, Stefano Poda has always developed his own language, combining the functions of director, set and costume designer, lighting designer and choreographer. He has directed over a hundred productions worldwide, including : the opening of the Verona Arena Centenary Festival in the summer of 2023, with a new production of Verdi’s Aida, broadcast worldwide (with a record 12,000 spectators at 13 performances, to be repeated in the 2024 and 2025 seasons); the opening of the Pesaro Rossini Festival 2023 with the first modern performance in the critical edition of Eduardo e Cristina; the launch of the 2023/24 season at Turin’s Teatro Regio with Halévy’s La Juive, which was awarded the Prix Abbiati 2024, the highest distinction of Italian critics; Enesco’s Œdipe at the 2023 Enesco Festival in Bucharest; Rusalka (2022) at the Capitole in Toulouse and in Tel Aviv (2024); the new production of Tosca (2021) at the Bolshoi in Moscow; Nabucco for the inauguration of the National Theater of Korea in 2021 and at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (2020, 2022); Romeo and Juliet (2018, 2024) at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing; Boris Godounov (2017) and Andrea Chénier (2015) at the Korean National Opera; L’elisir d’amore in Strasbourg (2016); Otello in Budapest (2015); Tristan und Isolde at the opening of the 77th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. His Faust (2015), Turandot (2018) and Thaïs at Turin’s Teatro Regio, have been shown in cinemas worldwide. In 2019, he receives the Prix Claude Rostand for his production of Dukas’s Ariane et Barbe-Bleue at the Capitole de Toulouse.
At Opéra de Lausanne: Ariodante and Faust (2016), Lucia di Lammermoor (2017), Les contes d’Hoffmann (2019), Alcina (2022) and Norma (2023)