Mario Corradi

stage director & dramatic acting coach

Originally from Montepulciano, now living in Milan, Italian native, Mario Corradi has directed opera all over the world for 40 plus years, as well, he has taught at the University of Notre Dame, Yale University, and Catholic University of Milan.

Mario began his theatrical career with the Yale University Theatre where he acted in and directed a wide range of plays while completing his doctoral studies in Philosophy. He then began working as assistant director to the famed, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, which lead to Mario’s debut as an operatic stage director with Il Matrimonio Segreto, in Palermo, Sicily.

Since then, Mario Corradi has worked at the major opera houses and festivals in: Aachen, Athens, Baalbek, Bad Hersfeld, Belo Horizonte, Bergamo, Berlin, Cagliari,  Charleston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Genova, Hamburg, Hiroshima, Jesi, Kiev, Madrid,  Malta, Marseilles, Montecarlo, Munich, Palermo, Palm Beach, Parma, Rio de Janeiro, St. Gallen, Seoul, Spoleto, Tokyo, Torre del Lago, Trapani, Valencia, and Yerevan.

Operas he has directed include: Aida, Amelia al Ballo, Andrea Chenier, L’Assedio di Corinto, Attila, Un Ballo in Maschera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Bohème, Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana, La Cenerentola, Così Fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Don Pasquale, L'Elisir d’Amore,  Falstaff, La Fanciulla del West, Faust, Gianni Schicchi, Il Maestro di Cappella, La Serva Padrona, La Gioconda, L'Italiana in Algeri, Lucia di Lammermoor, Luisa Miller, Macbeth,  Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Il Matrimonio Inaspettato, Il Matrimonio Segreto, Maria Golovin, Nabucco, Norma, Le Nozze di Figaro, Orfeo ed Euridice, Otello, Pagliacci, I Puritani, 
El Retablo de Maese Pedro, Rigoletto, Rita, Romeo et Juliette, Il Signor Bruschino, Simon Boccanegra, La Sonnambula, Tannhüaser, Il Teseo Riconosciuto, Tosca, La Traviata,  Turandot, and Werther.

Mario has worked with notable artists such as, Magda Olivero, Frederica von Stade, Fiorenza Cossotto, Piero Cappuccilli, Denyce Graves, Vladimir Galouzine, Renato Bruson, Lucia Valentini Terrani, and Daniela Dessi, among others. He often gives master classes for young singers, and among Mario’s latest engagements, has directed Il Trittico at Theater Aachen, and Fanciulla del West at Michigan Opera Theatre.