BIO
Born in Brazil, I moved to Europe at the age of nineteen, bringing with me an early passion for the performing arts. My first experiences in theatre date back to secondary school. Eventually, I also developed an interest in contemporary dance — an influence that continues to inform my sense of movement and staging.
I began my academic journey in Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University of Cologne, with History of Art and Philosophy as secondary subjects. The second part of my studies took me to the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris through the Erasmus programme. While I initially focused on themes more closely related to cinema, my time in Paris marked a turning point: it was there that I shifted my attention decisively towards opera.
What drew me to opera was its extraordinary ability to synthesise diverse artistic languages — music, drama, image, movement — and to unite them in a form capable of creating moments of true ecstasy. This discovery was decisive, and it defined my commitment to the field.
In Paris, I met the director Jean-Marc Bory, who invited me to join him as Assistant Director for a production of Mozart’s Lucio Silla in Lausanne, followed by a revival in Caen. He appreciated my work, and several further collaborations were planned; his sudden passing, however, brought these projects to an unexpected end.
I subsequently moved to Berlin to undertake an apprenticeship at the Deutsche Oper. Less than six months later, I was offered a position as Assistant Director and Revival Director — a formative step in the professional path I continue to follow today.
Since 2006 I have been working on a freelance basis as Revival Director, Associate Director and Assistant Director, contributing to major productions at leading European and international houses such as Teatro Real (Madrid), Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), Opéra National de Paris, Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Grand Théâtre de Genève, Deutsche Oper Berlin, among others.
This extensive track record underlines not only my versatility across repertory and languages, but also my ability to guide revivals and new productions with sensitivity to both musical and dramatic integrity — a skillset that makes me a reliable collaborator for theatres seeking directors who combine experience, flexibility, and artistic commitment.
I directed a wide and varied repertoire across continents, demonstrating a keen adaptability to different styles and institutional contexts, including Die Zauberflöte and Il Barbiere di Siviglia(Munotspiele, Switzerland), alongside stagings such as Così fan tutte and Hänsel und Gretel at the Festival de Ópera San Luis (Mexico). My practice also embraces contemporary theatre and dance-theatre like After Hours, staged at the Berghain in Berlin.
Take a look at my CV
Latest:
Aug- Oct 2024 Co-Director for the revival of Christiane Jatahy’s production Nabucco at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
Aug 2022 and Jul – Aug 2024 Director respectively of Die Zauberflöte and Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the Munotspiele in Schaffhausen, Switzerland
May – June 2024 Revival Director of Christiane Jatahy’s production of Nabucco at the Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville
Aug – Oct 2023 Revival Director of Claus Guth’s production of Don Carlo at the Latvian National Opera and Ballet, Riga
Feb – Mar 2023 Revival Director of Andrei Serban’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opera National de Paris/ Bastille
Jan 2023 Revival Director of Claus Guth’s production of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Canadian Opera Company
Jul 2018 and Jul 2019 Director of respectively Cosí Fan Tutte and Hänsel und Gretel at the Festival de Opera San Luis (San Luis Potosí / Mexico)
General:
Dec 2006 – present freelancing Revival Director / Associate Director / Assistant Director for the following productions:
Teatro Real Madrid: Iolanta/Persephone (Peter Sellars), La Clemenza di Tito in 2012 and 2016 (Karl Ernst und Ursel Herrmann), Boris Gudonov (Johan Simons), Macbeth (Dmitri Cherniakov), Wolfgang Rihm’s Die Eroberung von Mexiko (Pierre Audi), Charles Wourinen’s Brokeback Mountain (Ivo van Hove), Lohengrin (Lukas Hemleb); Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Christoph Marthaler); Cosí fan Tutte (Michael Haneke) also at the Wiener Festwochen; C(H)OEURS (Alain Platel) also at the Holland Festival, Ludwigsburger Festspiele, Diaghilev Festival / Perm – Russia, Concertgebouw Brugge and at La Monnaie/De Munt, La fille du Régiment (Laurent Pelly), Parsifal (Claus Guth), Rodelinda (Claus Guth), Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking (Leonard Foglia), Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten (Calixto Bieito), Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung (Robert Carsen), Le Nozze di Figaro (Claus Guth), Nabucco (Andreas Homoki), Aribert Reimann’s Lear (Calixto Bieito)
Gran Teatre del Liceu – Barcelona: Britten’s The War Requiem (Daniel Kramer), Anna Bolena (Rafel Duràn), Tristan und Isolde (Thor Steingraber), Rosenkavalier (Uwe Eric Laufenberg), King Roger (David Pountney), L’Incoronazione di Poppea (David Alden), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Claus Guth), Revival Director of Handel’s Rodelinda (Claus Guth)
Opéra National de Paris – Garnier: Don Giovanni (Ivo van Hove), Medée (David McVicar)
Royal Opera House – Covent Garden: Niobe by Agostino Steffani (Lukas Hemleb), The Rake’s Progress (Robert Lepage); Niobe also at Teatro São Carlos – Lisbon, Schwetzinger Festspiele and Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg
Grand Théâtre de Genève: Andrea Chenier (John Dew), Iphigénie en Tauride (Lukas Hemleb), Die Zauberflöte (Daniel Kramer / Jürgen Rose), Falstaff (Lukas Hemleb), Carmen (Reinhild Hoffmann), Nabucco (Christiane Jatahy)
Teatro di San Carlo, Naples Don Carlo (Director Claus Guth)
Ruhrtriennale: Das Rheingold and Alceste (Johan Simons)
Opera Ballet Vlaanderen: Don Carlos (Johan Simons)
Salzburger Festspiele: Elektra (Nikolaus Lehnhoff)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera: Tristan und Isolde (Nikolaus Lehnhoff) in 2007 and 2009
Nederlandse Nationale Opera & Ballet – Amsterdam: Associate Director for Die Entführung aus dem Serail(Johan Simons)
Teatro de la Maestranza Seville: Revival Director for La fille du Régiment (Laurent Pelly)
Opéra National de Montpellier: Revival Director of Rossini’s Semiramide (Kirsten Harms)
Staatstheater Darmstadt: Ainadamar by Oswaldo Golijow (Mei Hong Lin) – European premiere
Opernhaus Chemnitz: Revival Director of Parsifal (John Dew)
Teatro Carlo Felice – Genoa: The Love for the Three Oranges (Andreas Homoki)
Deutsche Oper Berlin: Semiramide (Kirsten Harms), Idomeneo (Hans Neuenfels), La Sonnambula (John Dew), Werther (Sebastian Baumgarten) and Salome (Achim Freyer)
Feb – Mar 2016 Interpretation and Acting Coach / Stage Director for an Opera Workshop at the Fundación Albéniz in Madrid
Oct 2015 and Oct 2018 Interpretation and Acting Coach / Stage Director for an Opera Workshop at the Hochschule für Musik Trossingen, Germany
Jul – Oct 2015 Producer, Director and Performer of the video dance project I ME AND MYSELFIE 108
Feb 2014 – 2016 Co-Director (with Johan Simons) for the scenic version of Schubert’s Winterreise premiered in Paris at the Cité de la Musique and then revived at the Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels, at the Philarmony in Rotterdam, at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence, at the Maison de la Culture in Grenoble (France), at Le Volcan in Le Havre (France) and at the Philarmonie in Cologne(Germany)
Jul 2013 and Jul 2014 Interpretation Coach, Acting Coach and Stage Director at the 12º and 13º Encuentro Internacional de Ópera in Saltillo, Mexico
Jun – Sept 2006 Director of After Hours – techno opera based on the film by Martin Scorsese at Berghain, Berlin
Aug – Oct 2005 Producer of the photo installation Bem-vindos – Berlim, CE at Museu do Ceará (Fortaleza, CE – Brazil); Direction and Screenplay Advisor to Karim Aïnouz during the filming of Suely in the Sky in Brazil; Camera for the respective Making Of ; Director of the documentary film essay Making Off
Feb 2014 – 2016 Co-Director (with Johan Simons) for the scenic version of Sc
Aug 2001 – Jul 2005 Company Member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Staff, Revival and Assistant Director for the following productions:
Pelléas et Mélisande (Marco Arturo Marelli), From the House of the Dead (Volker Schlöndorff), Faust (John Dew), Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci (David Pountney), Don Pasquale (Jean-Louis Martinoty), I Puritani (John Dew), Die Tote Stadt (Phillipe Arlaud), La Fanciulla del West (Vera Nemirova), Werther (Sebastian Baumgarten), Idomeneo (Hans Neuenfels), Salome (Achim Freyer), Semiramide (Kirsten Harms), Les Contes d‘Hoffmann (Sven Eric Bechtolf), Fidelio (Chistoph Nel), Verdi‘s Requiem (scenic version by Achim Freyer), Elektra (Ernst Schröder), Saint François d‘Assise (Daniel Libeskind)
Choreographer of the II Act Pantomime in From the House of the Dead (Volker Schlöndorff)
Aug 2000 – May 01 Assistant Director to Jean Marc Bory for Lucio Silla (co-production Opéra de Lausanne and Théâtre de Caen)
Actual Projects
Director of Wiegenlied für Raubtiere, a play with Mahler Songs;
Director of Campo de Flores, based on the song cycle Nacimientos by Tom Randle, inspired by Pablo Neruda’s poems;
Director of UNPARK ONE, a dance theatre play for people with Parkinson’s disease;
Co-Director for the revival of Nabucco (Christiane Jatahy) in Jan – Feb 2026 at the Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerp and Apr – May 2026 at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg;
Director Assistant for Mitridate (Claus Guth) Feb – Apr 2025 at the Teatro Real Madrid;
Revival Director of Don Carlo (Claus Guth) in Jan 2025 at Teatro di San Carlo Napoli;
Revival Director of Die Zauberflöte (Jürgen Rose) in Feb 2025 at Theater Bonn
Education
July 2000
Master of Arts in Sciences of Theatre, Cinema and Television at the Universität zu Köln (Cologne, Germany)
Art History and Philosophy as secondary disciplines, partially achieved at the Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III
Language Skills
Portuguese (first language), German, Italian, English, French and Spanish spoken and written; level B2 of Catalan and Greek and A1 of Dutch
