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Among the many productions that he has directed are <strong>Rusalka<\/strong> (Dvorak), <strong>Ariodante<\/strong>, <strong>Alcina<\/strong> (Handel), <strong>Norma<\/strong> (Bellini), <strong>Eduardo<\/strong> <strong>e<\/strong> <strong>Cristina<\/strong> (Rossini), <strong>Tosca<\/strong>, <strong>Turandot<\/strong> (Puccini), <strong>Nabucco<\/strong>, <strong>Il<\/strong> <strong>trovatore<\/strong>, <strong>La<\/strong> <strong>forza<\/strong> <strong>del<\/strong> <strong>destino<\/strong>, <strong>Don<\/strong> <strong>Carlo<\/strong>, <strong>Otello<\/strong>, <strong>Falstaff<\/strong>, <strong>Attila<\/strong> (Verdi), <strong>Romeo<\/strong> <strong>et<\/strong> <strong>Juliette<\/strong> (Gounod), <strong>Lucia<\/strong> <strong>di<\/strong> <strong>Lammermoor<\/strong> (Donizetti), <strong>Boris<\/strong> <strong>Godunov<\/strong> (Mussorgsky) <strong>Andrea<\/strong> <strong>Chenier<\/strong> (Giordano), <strong>Thais<\/strong> (Massenet), <strong>Tristan<\/strong> <strong>und<\/strong> <strong>Isolde<\/strong> (Wagner) and others. He has worked at the opera houses of Florence, Seoul, Buenos Aires, Turin, Sao Paolo, Budapest, Liege, Bilbao, Athens, Lausanne, Pesaro, Moscow and others. At the Israeli Opera he has created <strong>Faust<\/strong> (Gounod).<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px\" align=\"justify\">\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px\" align=\"justify\">At the Israeli Opera he directed:<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px\" align=\"justify\"><b>Rusalka<\/b> (2024)<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px\" align=\"justify\"><strong>Les Contes d&#8217;Hoffmann<\/strong> (2022)<br \/><strong>Faust<\/strong> (2017)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefano Poda, director and designer, was born in Italy. He always directs and designs the set, costumes and lighting for all his productions. 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