Calixto Bieito

Birthplace:
Miranda de Ebro, Spain

Studies:
Hispanic studies and art history at the University of Barcelona (1980 to 1985), performance at the Escuela de Arte Dramático de Tarragona and stage direction at the Theater Institute of the Diputació de Barcelona

Prizes:
Premios Ópera Actual (2019), Premios Líricos Ópera XXI (2018), Premios Líricos Campoamor (2014), Premio Franco Abbiati (2012), European Cultural Award (2009)

Important productions:
"War and Peace" (Geneva, Budapest), "Tristan und Isolde", "Von der Liebe Tod", "Elias" (Vienna), "Marienvesper", "Der Silbersee" (Mannheim), "Moses und Aron" (Dresden, 2018), "L'incoronazione di Poppea" (Zurich), "Johannes-Passion" (Bilbao and Paris), "Messa da Requiem", "¡Gesualdo! ", "Otello", "Falstaff" (Hamburg), "Turandot", "Die Trojaner" (Nuremberg), "Carmen" (Paris, Vienna, Venice, Madrid, etc. ), "Oresteia", "Aida", "Don Carlos" (Basel), "Der feurige Engel" (Zurich and Madrid), "Tosca" (Oslo, 2017), "The Fairy Queen", "Parsifal", "Der fliegende Holländer", "Platée" (Stuttgart), "Lear", "The Exterminating Angel", "Simon Boccanegra" (Paris), "Boris Gudonov", "Fidelio", "La Juive" (Munich), "War Requiem" (London, Basel, Oslo), "Tannhäuser" (Antwerp, Leipzig and Venice), "Die Wohlgesinnten" and "Lady Macbeth von Mzensk" (Antwerp), "Katya Kabanova" (Prague and Dresden), "La forza del destino" (London), "Wilde" (Schwetzingen), "Die Soldaten" (Zurich, Berlin and Madrid), "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" (Berlin), "Don Giovanni", "La traviata" (Hanover), "Macbeth" (Salzburg), et al.

Career Stages:
Artistic Director of the Teatro Arriaga Bilbao (since 2017), Artist in Residence at Theater Basel (2013 to 2015), Artistic Director of the Barcelona Internacional Teatre (2011 to 2012), Artistic Director of the FACYL in Salamanca (2010 to 2012), Director of the Festival Internacional de las Artes de Castilla y León (2010 and 2011), Artistic Director of the Teatre Romea in Barcelona (1999 to 2011), et al.