INDEPENDENT OPERA at Sadler's Wells

Alessandro Talevi

Alessandro is INDEPENDENT OPERA at Sadler's Wells' Artistic Director 2008 and Stage Director for last year's double bill of Maconchy operas. Born in Johannesburg, Talevi read Music and History of Art at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. After completing an MA he furthered his studies at the Royal Academy of Music as a vocal accompanist.

Talevi has directed several operas in the UK and South Africa; these include La Voix Humaine, Noye’s Fludde, La Princesse Jaune, Un Giorno di Regno and Gräfin Mariza. He has also produced opera tableaux for the Royal Academy of Music Opera course, and has served as a staff director at English National Opera. In January 2007, Talevi revived Teatro La Fenice's production of Ariadne auf Naxos in Bolzano and Lucca. For IO he has directed and designed Rossini's La Scala di Seta (2005) and Handel's Orlando (2006).

Future projects include Pelléas et Mélisande for Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells, La Fedeltà Premiata at the Royal Academy of Music with Trevor Pinnock conducting and La Colombe and L'occasione fa il ladro at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.