Mario Pavle del Monaco

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Mario Pavle del Monaco is a serbian-italian opera director, born 1993. in Rome (Italy) and he comes from a family of opera singers and opera directors.

After having finished gymnasium and music middle school in Belgrade (courses: classical piano and opera singing) in “Kosta Manojlovic”, “Mokranjac” and “Dr. Vojislav Vuckovic” music schools, he moved to Vienna (Austria) where he began his academic studies of musical theatre directing at the “University for music and performing arts, Vienna” (2012.) having prof. Reto Nickler as his main mentor, who decided to take him as an assistant director at the beginning of his studies for “Don Giovanni” production by W.A. Mozart in “Schloßtheater Schönbrunn”. His notable productions at the university include “Il tabarro” by G. Puccini, “A florentine tragedy” by A. von Zemlinsky, “Entführung aus dem Serail” by W.A. Mozart and “Werther” by J. Massenet and he is fluent in english, italian, serbian and german languages.

In 2017. He graduated with highest honors and received the title “Magister of arts” (Magister Artium) and was awarded with “MDW Prize of honor award” by his university in recognition of his excellent achievements during the course of his studies, with a particular accent on his “Werther” production by J. Massenet.

After having gathered additional experience at the festival in Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) in the “Il trovatore” production by G. Verdi, he moved to Germany (Würzburg) where he was offered a 5 year contract at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg.

During his time at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, he directed two operas for younger audience, “Colas der Magier” (based on Mozart´s “Bastien und Bastienne”) and the world premiere of “Siegfried, der kleine Drachentöter” // Music by: A. Sieber // Libretto by: Dr. Berthold Warnecke, while in the season 2021./2022. he directed “I Capuleti e I Montecchi” by V. Bellini.

Upon returning to Belgrade in 2022. he was invited to direct a new production of Giacomo Puccini´s “Turandot” in the 2022./2023. Season in the National Theatre in Belgrade, together in a form of a coproduction with the “Theatre Madlenianum”.

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