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The Naples-born Director Mario Martone is in the fields of theatre, Opera, and Film. In 1999 he became director of the Teatro Argentina in Rome, in the same year began his work for the Opera. Here he has directed Così fan tutte under the baton of Claudio Abbado. He completed the Da Ponte trilogy of Mozart with "Don Giovanni"and" Le nozze di Figaro". He directed three times for the Rossini Opera Festival: at the operas "Matilde di Shabran", for which he received the Abbiati award for directing," Torvaldo e Dorliska "and" Aureliano in Palmira", which won the International Opera Award. In particular, he staged Repertoire of the 20th century such as Berg's "Lulu", Ivan Fedele's" Antigone", Henze's" die Bassariden "at the Teatro dell'opera in Rome and Hindemith's" Sancta Susanna " at the Paris Opera Bastille. Also, the Soundtrack of his film "Noi credevamo" (2010) about the Italian Risorgimento consists of Italian opera music of the 19th century. Century. His last Film "Il giovane favoloso" about Giacomo Leopardi brought in Italy more than a Million viewers to the cinema. Mario Martone was head of the Teatro Stabile in Turin for ten years, with which he realized productions such as Büchner's "Morte di Danton" and Eduardo de Filippos "Il sindaco del rione Sanità". At the opening of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in December 2017, he directed Umberto Giordano's "Andrea Chénier" with Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov.
