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was born in Poland. He is a director, designer and playwright. His directing career began in 1994 with productions in Poland, France, Belgium, Ireland and Italy of Italian and Polish modern playwrights, Shakespeare, Lorca and Marlowe. His first opera production was La Molinara (Paisiello) and since then he has worked on more than 40 opera productions in opera houses in Warsaw, Poznan, Florence, Como, Cagliari, Bologna, Milan and Rome among others. In 1995 he was invited by the Teatro alla Scala in Milan to produce, write, direct and design the multilingual project Autour de Chopin, a show inspired by the salons of the romantic period. In 1996 this piece inaugurated the new hall of the National Theatre in Warsaw. Since 2005 he has been also the artistic director of Association CON-TEATRO. His recent productions include El Retablo de Maese Pedro (De Falla), L'isola disabitata (Haydn), Mose in Egitto (Rossini), Mandragola (Szymanowski), Ascanio in Alba (Mozart), Hagith (Szymanowski) Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte (Mozart), Cyrano de Bergerac (Alfano), Rigoletto (Verdi), Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Bartok), L'elisir d'amore (Donizetti), Cosi fan tutte (Mozart) and many other productions in opera houses all over Europe including Spain, Italy and Poland. Since 2009 Michal Znaniecki is the General Manager of Teatr Wielki Opera Poznan. This is his first work for the Israeli Opera. |
