Davide Livermore

Davide Livermore has worked in theatre for more than twenty years, during which time he has been a director, set and costume designer, lighting designer, singer, dancer, actor and playwright. He has worked with artists such as Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Mirella Freni, Luca Ronconi, Zubin Mehta and Zhang Yimou.

In his home country of Italy he has directed at houses such as the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. He has a longstanding association with La Scala, Milan, where he directed Verdi’s Attila in 2018, Tosca in 2019, the gala concert A riveder le stelle in 2020 and Macbeth in 2022. He has also worked for the opera houses of Philadelphia, Montpellier and Avignon, at the Palacio de la Ópera in A Coruña, the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao and the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, and at the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo and the Seoul Arts Center.

From 2015 to 2017 Davide Livermore was artistic director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, where he directed the training programme Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo and productions of La bohème, Otello and La forza del destino. For the last of these he was awarded the Premios Líricos Teatro Campoamor. He is currently director of the Teatro Nazionale in Genoa.

Davide Livermore has also worked for Radiotelevisione Svizzera as a director, actor and author, including on the documentary film W Verdi, Giuseppe and the series Livermore sciò, for which he was nominated for the Rose d’Or prize for excellence in television.

In the 2023/24 season he has directed Don Carlo and Giulio Cesare at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the double bill La lupa / Il berretto a sonagli by Marco Tutino at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania. In June 2024 he will direct a new production of Turandot at La Scala.

In 2016 Davide Livermore was made an Ufficiale dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia.