Rafael R. Villalobos

General Management
Biography
Winner of the 2019 Princess of Girona Foundation Arts and Literature Award and of the 2013 Opera Europa – Camerata Nuova Europäischer Opernregie-Preis, Rafael R. Villalobos is quickly gaining international recognition as one of the most interesting young stage directors to come out of Spain. He was a finalist in the Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells Director Fellowship competition, an artist-in-residence at the Academy of Spain in Rome, nominated for the Best Young Director at the 2016 International Opera Awards in London and a Semi-Finalist in the 9th Ring Award in Graz.

The season 2024/25 will see Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride at Vlaamse Opera and at Teatro de la Maestranza (co-production w Opéra national de Montpellier), a new production of Otello at Göteborgsoperan and Orlando at Oper Köln (in co-production w Festival Castell de Peralada).  Furthermore he will stage de Falla’s La Vida Breve and the world premiere of Torres‘ Tejas Verdes in a double bill at Teatro Real Madrid as well as the new creation I Grotteschi, distilled from Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and L’incoronazione di Poppea at La Monnaie in Brussels.

Most recent engagements include Ballo in Maschera (Palau de les Arts Valencia), Iphigénie en Tauride (Opéra national de Montpellier), Tres Reinas (Teatro Real Madrid), Tosca (La Monnaie in co-operation w Gran Teatre del Liceu, Opéra national de Montpellier, Teatro de La Maestranza Sevilla), José de Nebras’ La Violación de Lucrecia (Teatro de la Zarzuela Madrid), Philip Glass‘ Orphée (Teatro Real in co-operation w Teatros del Canal in Madrid), Vicente Martin y Soler‘s L´Arbore di Diana (Theater an der Wien), scenes from Donizetti’s Tudor Trilogy (Gran Teatre del Liceu), Handel‘s Orlando (Festival Castell de Peralada), Il barbiere di Siviglia  (Opéra national de Montpellier), Così fan tutte (Teatro de la Maestranza Seville) and Germán Alonso‘s Marie (Teatro Real). Furthermore, he has produced Acis and Galetea (Festival Castell de Peralada), Dido and Aeneas (Teatro Real), Elektra (Auditorio Nacional de Música Madrid), Sciarrino‘s Superflumina (Teatro Massimo), Hänsel und Gretel (Hungarian State Opera), Krenek‘s Der Diktator (Teatro de la Maestranza), Orphée et Eurydice (Teatro Villamarta) and a critically acclaimed staged version of Britten‘s Noye’s Fludde (Wiesbaden).More
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