Marcelo Lombardero

Marcelo Lombardero, a singer and director, has worked as the artistic director at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, where he first was in charge of the Chamber Opera and then of the entire Teatro Colón. At present he is the artistic director of the second largest opera house in Argentina, the Teatro Argentino de La Plata.

His first foray into directing was on the experimental stage at the Teatro Colón, where he prepared productions of the scenic cantata Mahagonny-Songspiel (Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil), the project Al claro de luna with music by Claudio Monteverdi, Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy and staged performances of Ligeti’s smaller vocal works Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures. In 1994 he worked as a stage director at the Teatro Colón for the first time on a production of Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle. Among the operatic productions that he later directed there were La fanciulla del West (Giacomo Puccini), Dialogues des Carmélites (Francis Poulenc), Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Viktor Ullmann), Der König Kandaules (Alexander Zemlinsky), Jonny spielt auf (Ernst Křenek) and Wozzeck (Alban Berg). He has also introduced himself as a director at other Argentine theatres including the Teatro Nacional Cervantes and the Compañía Buenos Aires Lírica.

Marcelo Lombardero has guest directed in France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Chile, Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela, Brazil and elsewhere. Among the many operas he has directed are Verdi’s and Rossini’s Otello, Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, Falla’s La vida breve, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires, Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Puccini’s Tosca, Suor Angelica and Manon Lescaut, Verdi’s Macbeth, Maderna’s Satyricon, Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito and Le nozze di Figaro, Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress and Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. In 2004 Marcelo Lombardero won the Argentine Music Critics Award. He won the prestigious Argentine theatrical prize A.C.E. in 1997, 2003 and 2007. In 2003 he won the Teatros del Mundo award. In 2006, 2007 and 2009 in Chile he was awarded by the Association of Journalists of the Arts A.P.E.S. He has also received the Clarín Award for 2000 and the Konex Foundation Award for 2009.